Milli Proust: The family gardening charm that inspired ‘How Does Your Garden Grow’ - Episode 265

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Sarah Raven

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The garden is a welcoming place for all, particularly for newcomers when guided by the gentle eye of Milli Proust, and under the instruction of her calming new book. Milli joins us once again, this time to share the inspiring journey that’s led up to her most approachable book to date, and some of the easy-to-understand frameworks to create an effortlessly beautiful garden. In this episode, discover: How Milli Proust found floristry, and began creating a deeply loved, biodiverse garden in Wes...

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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 today
0:29.4	to discover even more. Welcome to GrowCookie to Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today I'm joined again by Millie Proust, who is somebody who I feel fond of, but also admiring of.
0:55.2	Hello, Millie, before I go any further.
0:58.1	So you would have heard Millie and I chatting about my book, which is out just now, a month or so ago.
1:05.1	And Millie's got a book out also in early March.
1:09.5	And so I thought it would be quite a nice symmetry if I then
1:13.2	interviewed her about her book which I really love by the way I think it's is wonderful and the
1:20.8	reason I well I'm going to tell you many reasons why I love it but one of the things is it reminds
1:26.8	me so much of 32 years ago
1:29.5	when we arrived at Perch Hill. So Millie will tell us about, but basically have been making
1:34.6	her garden for 10 years over in West Sussex. And her book, How Does Your Garden Grow, is just
1:41.8	such a useful thing because it's from the perspective of someone who still remembers
1:46.7	starting out. And as we're going to hear, Millie kind of wrote it almost for her sister,
1:53.9	who isn't a gardener. So Millie, will you give us a picture, first of all? So yeah, tell us
1:59.7	what made you write the book
2:02.5	and a little bit about how your sister persuaded you, etc.
2:08.0	Firstly, thanks. Thanks for reading it and thanks for having me on. So it's fun because this book
2:13.0	is not to do with floristry at all, which is what I think a lot of your book is about and a lot of my previous book from seat to bloom was about. And I found that a lot of the questions I was getting from people was less and less to do with how do you make this vase, how do you do this? And people are always interested in that. But I think the things I kept fielding was, how do you,
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