The Colour Guide Mini Series #5: The velvet palette - Episode 267

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🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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For many, the garden should be a peaceful place where its colours invite you in and envelop you in their earthy tones, and that’s the role of Sarah Raven’s velvet palette. In this episode of the Colour Guide Mini Series, Sarah moves us to her next, and perhaps favourite palette of the four. She talks through their calming colours, and the flower families that help keep that tranquility in your garden through a reliable planting succession. In this episode, discover: How to create a velvet col...

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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 GrowCook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today I'm again on my own because I'm doing a mini-series on the Clidoscope, Colourful Garden.
0:52.3	I did the first of my palettes, which is luminous, and it is what it says on the tin, really, which is as if light is shining through stained glass, and so they're luminous. And the colours there are very saturated, strong, jolly, orange, yellow, lime, along with purple into pink, red and blue.
1:16.7	So this palette is very much kind of calmer, earthier, got quite a lot of brown mixed in with the colours.
1:26.2	And that may make you think, oh oh that doesn't appeal to me this is
1:30.0	actually my favourite palette in the world the velvet palette because you want to wrap yourself in it
1:36.0	it's very enveloping and I love a garden to be a haven and I love to walk out into it and almost feel like I want to wrap myself in every one of
1:46.9	the flatwards because their texture is wonderful and their colour is rich and they are really
1:54.3	not crisp and clean, they're more earthy but beautiful and resonate colour and sort of absorb it but also give it out in a beautiful way.
2:05.9	And for me, this is my real heart palette.
2:08.8	I'm a cozy girl and it's a very cozy palette.
2:12.1	And what are the colors in this palette?
2:15.6	Well, there are six again and the colours are more subtle than the
2:21.8	luminous palette. So the first is sort of nearly black. I mean, I was going to call it crimson
2:28.5	black, but actually it really is nearly black. And obviously, very few flowers are actually that sort of really true
2:37.6	onyx colour. They've got more red than that. But they're darker than red wine. Let's put it that
2:43.5	way. And so there are lots of wonderful things in that colour. And I'll tell you about them in a
2:49.3	minute. The second colour is sort of, it's a family, it's a range from crimson to Carmen, and even
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