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grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends

Josie Lewis: The 12 best container plants for winter scent and spectacle - Episode 250

grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends

Sarah Raven

Cook, Arranging, Home, Flower Arranging, Grow, Arrangements, Kitchen, Vegetables, Flowers, Gardener, Veg Garden, Lifestyle, Gardening, Leisure, Home & Garden, Food, Cooking, Arts, Eating, Eat, Growing, Planting, Produce, Garden, Sarah Raven

4.7843 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The garden’s magic needn’t be seasonal - containers can be the heroes of hue in even the coldest months. It’s time to assemble your winter containers ready to keep the scent and colour peaking, carrying us through till spring, with 12 inspiring varieties from Sarah and our Head Gardener, Josie Lewis. Join them on ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ for a plethora of plants perfect for containers of any size, and how to keep them all looking their very best. In this episode, discover: Which container p...

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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 sarahraven.com today

0:29.4

to discover even more. Welcome to Grow Cook-E-Torange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today I'm joined by our

0:47.0

Perch Hill head gardener Josie Lewis, who's been here often before, and I'm sure lots of you

0:51.9

will recognise her voice. Hello, nice to be back again.

0:55.8

Good. So we are going to continue between us the 12 best series. So we've done structural plants,

1:04.6

well we've done lots of different things actually. But what Josie and I thought we would cover

1:09.4

initially are her pet subject, I guess, which are container plants.

1:15.5

I mean, if I have a pet subject, which is, I guess, cut flowers number one, number two edibles, definitely for Josie.

1:23.8

Number one for her, I would say, I'm putting words in her mouth.

1:26.8

She can speak for herself,

1:28.0

would be containers and number two roses. Is that right, Josie?

1:31.0

Roses or Dahlia's, yes.

1:32.5

Of course, I forget. Delias, that's a pet subject for both of us.

1:36.8

Anyway, so we thought we would do containers. And because we are autumn, winter, spring,

1:43.6

season, we thought we'd start with those

1:45.9

and not because I guess you can plant them now, which, of course, is a bit late,

1:49.9

although you still could plant some.

1:51.7

And then we're going to move on to the ones that you want to do the changeover as your bulbs go over

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