Perfect plants for a small town garden with big impact with Tom Stimpson - Episode 223

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

Sarah Raven

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4.8 • 788 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Tom Stimpson’s pint-sized garden is an inspiration for anyone with a small urban plot, and it’s packed with showstopping varieties that will flower for months on end providing colour, scent, and food for pollinators in a compact space. In this episode of ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’, Tom, our Head of Horticulture, tells Sarah how he’s brought his small town garden to life, including the irresistible combinations of dahlias and salvias that he’s planting in his whopper pots for the season to com...

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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 Gl Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and various different guests.
0:47.2	And today I'm joined by Tom Stimson, who lots of you who listen regularly will have met before so tom is our head of horticulture and works
0:58.2	hugely with me in creating collections at putchill oh first of all hello tom hi hi sarah hello and he has the most
1:08.5	exquisite and fantastic garden in Ely.
1:12.7	And tell us the size, Tom, just to recap.
1:16.0	It's a proper pint pot size garden.
1:19.3	It's 10 metres by 7.
1:20.7	Yeah.
1:21.1	So it's quite compact and tiny.
1:22.9	Yeah.
1:23.5	And it's a real sun trap at the back of the house.
1:26.6	And then he goes straight onto the street
1:28.7	at the front and there's a window box and he has doorstep pots which apparently don't go walkies
1:35.0	which I would have worried about but but they don't which is fantastic and then the other thing is
1:39.8	down the side of his house he's end of terrace he has a bed that's shady for quite a bit of the day, but actually gets enough sun that he's sort of almost guerrilla-gardened it.
1:50.8	I'm not sure whether you actually own it.
1:53.9	Do you, Tom?
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