The Colour Guide Mini Series #2: Understanding colour theory - Episode 262

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Sarah Raven

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Each colour palette in the garden creates a unique atmosphere, and you don’t need intricate knowledge of the colour wheel to combine them cohesively in the garden. In this episode of the Colour Guide Mini Series, Sarah talks us through why her colour palette system works to create stunning arrangements which work with each other, rather than against each other, and how to transition between palettes within neighbouring spaces. In this episode, discover: How Sarah’s four core colour palettes e...

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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. Welcome to Grokuketarange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven and various guests.
0:46.1	But as part of the series I'm doing on the Color Garden, the Collidesoscope Garden,
0:52.0	I'm on my own for the next few, quite a few actually, because I'm
0:55.7	explaining my whole colour theory that has formed the basis of the garden at Pertchell for 32 years,
1:03.5	but also even predating that, kind of what I did as a florist and how I put colours together.
1:09.9	And it's a sort of foundation stone of everything I do
1:13.0	really and feels absolutely kind of pivotal to the garden here, but also to the house, to everything,
1:19.5	to everything. I already did one episode introducing the different palettes and the colours that
1:27.0	went within them. And so you can find that on the colours that went within them.
1:28.4	And so you can find that on the first episode of this.
1:32.5	And so four pallets each with six colours within them, so 24 colours.
1:37.9	And in this episode, I'm going to move on and I'm going to explain a little bit more detail
1:43.5	about things like how my color theory
1:47.9	relates to color charts to, you know, the whole color wheel and all that kind of stuff.
1:54.7	And then also about the atmospheres that are created by the different palettes.
1:59.5	So that's kind of what we're going to do
2:02.0	and this one. And then in the next episode, I'm going to really home in on your own gardens
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