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

MINI-SERIES: Beginner’s Guide to Pots

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

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🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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As we bring this beginner gardening miniseries to a close, it’d be remiss of us not to cover containers, for the more urban gardeners looking to jazz up a windowsill or tabletop with a marvellous centrepiece. From piecing together a stage-like display with tiers to sizing up the largest pot your windowsill will take, Sarah & Arthur share the most vivacious plants for those of us looking to make a small space look and smell it’s very best. In this episode, discover: Which high-performing p...

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0:00.0

You can find more information, photos and advice sheets on all the plants and recipes that we talk about in this podcast by heading to the links in the show notes or on our website at sarahavin.com.

0:19.7

Welcome to the final episode of our mini-series on gardening with me, Arthur Parkinson, and my good friend Sarah Raven.

0:28.3

In this last episode, we're going to be talking about something I am incredibly potty about.

0:34.0

It's pots, or to be a little bit more professional containers. And the reason I love containers

0:40.4

is because of the access they give to anybody, whether all you've got literally is a house, maybe

0:47.5

with a windowsill or maybe not, maybe you've got a patio, maybe you've got a small terrace

0:52.1

garden or just a front garden, or maybe you've got a

0:54.6

massive, sprawling, gorgeous, long garden that's divided into lots of different sections.

1:00.0

Pots allow an amazing diversity and grandeur, actually, of plant possibilities.

1:06.5

And of course, pots include house plants, which is one of the most up and coming sections of

1:12.0

gardening, so indoor gardening, but of course it is all in pots.

1:15.6

But what I love increasingly is when I'm going about the place, I see more and more containers

1:20.2

in school playgrounds, around hospitals, on stations.

1:24.7

I was at a station this morning.

1:26.0

And there were some lovely, quite big raised beds,

1:28.9

planted with rosemary and lavender. And the bigger pots are, the more possibilities there are

1:34.7

in terms of growing in them. Really do not feel like your gardening prowess is limited if all

1:40.0

you can do is have pots. Personally, if someone was to give me a choice, I think now I probably

1:45.3

would choose to garden in pots rather than in the ground because there's no backbreaking. You're not

1:49.6

having to bend your knees all the time. It's more up hip height if you choose to garden in dolly tubs

1:55.3

and old dustbins, which is what I do all the time. And I think that's my main rule when I'm

2:00.5

thinking about pot size, go for the

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