Arthur Parkinson: The 12 best low-maintenance perennials for easy garden impact - Episode 253

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Sarah Raven

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Whether you're nurturing a bustling city plot or a country border, there’s a spot in everyone’s gardens, pots and borders for beautiful, productive perennials throughout the year. Following on from last week’s episode of ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’, Arthur is with us again to focus this time on perennials that are light-touch and bountiful for those of us putting together a low-maintenance garden. In this episode, discover: Perennials, shrubs, and self-seeding annuals that provide long-lasting...

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by sarahraven.com, which is home to everything you need for a truly
0:06.3	beautiful and productive garden. You'll also find great and essential gardening kit and stylish,
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0:29.1	today to discover even more.
0:48.8	Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, and today I'm joined again by lovely Arthur Parkinson, which is such a treat.
0:57.6	And we're doing a theme, the two of us, on sort of low fuss gardening. we did a perennial self-seeders and spreaders and today we thought we would do low fuss perennials which obviously is linked but it could
1:04.3	be perennials into even shrubs and then we're going to finish with self-seeding annuals so the three
1:10.7	different subjects really of a self-per finish with self-seeding annuals. So the three different subjects, really, of a self-perpetuating, self-seeding, low-maintenance, utterly beautiful, magical garden.
1:20.0	Welcome, Arthur. How are you?
1:21.1	Fine. I like that description.
1:24.3	Yeah, dream on. No, no.
1:27.8	Gardening does need a bit of gardening.
1:29.8	A lot of magic, a lot of fantasy.
1:32.8	A lot of fantasy.
1:34.7	So this episode is on low fuss perennials with maybe the old shrub, as I say.
1:40.6	I kind of was thinking maybe ideally they don't need staking, ideally they don't need
1:47.4	endless deadheading, and ideally they are reliable long performers. And so I guess that was sort of
1:54.2	the criteria that I set us both. And so maybe you would start off, Arthur, which I mean, actually your first one is a shrub, isn't it?
2:03.2	It is.
2:03.8	But why don't you kick off?
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