The Colour Guide Mini Series #7: The washed palette - Episode 269

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Sarah Raven

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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There’s something uniquely calming about a garden washed in cool pastels – soft tones that feel like frosty mornings and freshly laundered linen. Moving us onto the 4th and final palette in Sarah’s colour system, we explore the washed palette in this episode of ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’. She takes you through the colour combinations, productive plant families, and tips for crafting a soothing, contemplative feeling in your garden. In this episode, discover: How to use Sarah’s washed co...

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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
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0:29.1	today to discover even more.
0:45.0	Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven,
0:52.2	and this week I'm on my own again because I'm doing the last in the series about the colour garden.
0:57.7	So sort of rules for getting a colourful colour saturated garden,
1:04.9	but without it going wrong. So this is episode seven and the last one and it's the last palette.
1:14.2	And so I always work with four different palettes and they are. The first one is luminous, which is like the boiled sweets, so really bright colours. The second is velvet, so really rich velvety colours like
1:20.6	crimson mahoganyes. The third is a kind of what I used to call the cashmere colours, but I now call
1:26.5	comforting, which is the pastel colours cashmere colours, but I now call comforting,
1:33.4	which is the pastel colours with lots of white but also based on the warm palette.
1:40.3	And then the final one, which I'm doing now, is washed, which is pastels but in the cool palette.
1:48.1	And so, like with all the others, there are six colours, and they are pure snow white,
1:55.2	cool pink, so the really, really cool pinks that have got no orange in them at all. They're really pastel, but they're also cool. Cool purples, so lilac, or some people call it mauve, the cool ice blues, the cool yellows,
2:06.9	so like primrose down to O'Donil, so into the cool greens, so not bright luminous green,
2:13.2	like acid green, but the cool greens. And then finally silver, which is actually almost a universal
2:21.0	colour. I use it in lots of different palettes, but it fits most naturally in this soft, cool
2:28.2	palette or washed palette. And the words I sort of associate with this palette are literally kind of washed laundry
2:37.2	linen, a snow peak mountains, frosty mornings, cool grey skies, you know, it's all that kind of stuff.
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