The Colour Guide Mini Series #6: The comforting palette - Episode 268

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Sarah Raven

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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A comforting garden can feel as soft and familiar as your favourite cashmere jumper, and in this episode of ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’, Sarah shares a palette which achieves exactly this feeling. In the latest of the Colour Guide Mini Series episodes, Sarah shares how to create a mood using the comforting palette, the key plant families and varieties, plus how to sequence them through the seasons, so your borders feel gentle and soothing from early spring to late autumn. In this episode, disc...

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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.
0:46.8	Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today, again, I'm on my own.
0:55.6	I'm doing the sixth part of our mini series on Color in the Garden and sort of standing back and appraising whether you're getting exactly what you want
0:57.6	from your garden in terms of life-enhancing colour.
1:02.2	And for me, there is nothing more important than colour in a garden.
1:05.3	I know some people just don't agree about that
1:08.0	and I have a godmother who's a wonderful garden designer.
1:12.2	And I remember her saying to me once in the early days when I gave up medicine and started gardening,
1:18.1	Sarah, every garden should work in a black and white picture and be as beautiful in black and white as it is in colour.
1:25.5	And I thought at the time, hmm, not for me.
1:29.7	Anyway, 33 years on.
1:33.2	I just can't agree with that.
1:34.8	I mean, I know that shape and form and structure are unbelievably important,
1:39.7	but colour is for me super, super important from the enjoyment I get out of it.
1:46.2	And the different palettes that I've described in the earlier parts of this mini-series
1:52.6	give you different atmospheres.
1:55.0	And the palette that I'm going to cover today is comforting.
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