Arthur Parkinson: The 12 top self-seeding perennials for an effortless garden - Episode 252

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Sarah Raven

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The ideal garden for our busy daily lives has a border bursting with colour, without the need for hours spent toiling to achieve it. This week’s episode of ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ is the perfect antidote to fussy flowers - Arthur Parkinson returns to laud the best self-seeding perennials for a low-maintenance garden brimming with lasting impact and scent. You’ll hear inspiring ornamentals and edibles to sow, how best to maintain their beauty with minimal effort, and which varieties are mos...

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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,
0:12.9	lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden
0:19.8	and the house being tied together. There's also plenty of
0:23.1	garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraban.com
0:29.1	today to discover even more.
0:44.2	Welcome to Gr Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven,
0:49.1	and today is absolutely lovely because I'm joined again by Arthur Parkinson.
0:50.5	Hello, Arthur.
0:51.1	Hello.
0:52.3	How are you?
0:53.0	I'm all right.
0:57.1	I was just thinking I'm a bit like a self-seeder these days in this podcast,
1:00.1	aren't I keep coming and going and in a little corner?
1:04.6	Yeah, well, that's the subject for today, so that's very appropriate.
1:10.1	But before we crack into our subject, which is about self-seeding perennials and spreaders. I just wanted to talk to
1:12.9	everybody about Arthur's really wonderful, new, little mini jewel of a book called Hen Party,
1:20.6	a celebration. And it's just the most lovely thing, which is Arthur's paintings, drawings of all the breeds of chicken,
1:30.8	including a really rare breeds as a sort of celebration of the thing that is his passion,
1:37.8	perhaps even more than gardening or equal to gardening, which are hens and henkeeping.
1:43.5	So, Arthur, will you just tell us a little bit
1:45.1	how the book came to be? Because it is just the most lovely, lovely thing. I think it would make
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