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

The Colour Guide Mini Series #4: The luminous palette - Episode 264

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

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The luminous palette - a rich, stained glass collection of citrus, scarlet and pinky-purples - is the first of Sarah’s colour combinations that we’ll walk through in depth for this episode of the Colour Guide Mini Series. Sarah explains the six key colours, which ones to use together throughout the year, and the flower families which she considers the most prominent and productive as they pass the colour baton through the year. In this episode, discover: How to use Sarah’s luminous palette wi...

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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 Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today I'm on my own. I haven't got a guest with me.

0:48.6

And I'm going to do the fourth episode in my colour series, my kaleidoscope garden series, and I'm going to do four

0:57.6

episodes, one on each of the pallets. So just to recap, I work with four pallets. Each palette has

1:06.6

six colours. And today I'm going to talk about the luminous palette. Next week, I'm going to talk

1:12.8

about velvet, the week after, comforting, and the week after and the final week of this

1:18.4

mini-series. I will talk about washed. And they each have six colours. And just to recap on luminous,

1:25.3

the colours are.

1:35.8

There's three citrus colours, so orange, lemon yellow and lime, and then blue, real cobalt blue, dazzling pink into purple.

1:40.3

So you know how pink when it's really bright, almost can look purple in some lights?

1:46.4

So that's the fifth colour.

1:48.6

And the final colour is scarlet.

1:51.7

And so those six colours.

1:53.3

Now, you'll already know by the fact that I, you know, just naming those colours,

1:59.7

they're really jolly, they're cheerful. They're luminous.

2:03.3

That's why they're called luminous. They're lit from within. They're the stained glass

2:08.0

colours. I was lucky enough last winter to go to Chart Cathedral in France, in northern France.

2:14.4

And they're incredible blue stained glass, but red and green, all the colors.

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