In mid August, I went with my sister to visit Perch Hill, Sarah Raven’s garden in East Sussex.
I have been there several times before and it is usually full of inspiration and colour and this time was no exception.
She had introduced some “open garden” visits, where if you were lucky and booked very early you could have either coffee and cake in the morning session or lunch in the mid day and afternoon sessions, but unfortunately we had to make do without any refreshment.
Nonetheless, it was a lovely experience, walking through the cut flower garden filled with dahlias, some as big as dinner plates (not quite my thing).
The cutting garden was also full of cosmos, tithonia, zinnias salvias and sunflowers.
There is a central arch up which she grows sweet peas and when they have finished (which they had on our visit).
The sweet peas are replaced with the yellow, orange and red “Spanish flag” “mina lobata” or I think now called “ipomea lobata” and white and mauve cobea scandens.
There was plenty verbena and also a pretty annual persicaria which I had tried to grow from seed and failed and I understand that it grows best when it self-sows, but you have to get it to grow first to achieve that.
She was also growing tagetes cinnabar which I have grown very successfully this year (albeit having been donated the plants)
Needless to say I took a lot of photos, and I will put a further set from other areas on the blog in the next few days.
Best wishes,
Rosemary
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