HOW TO CHOOSE AND STYLE GARDEN POTS LIKE A PRO
| Published date | 06 April 2024 |
| Publication title | Huddersfield Daily Examiner |
Now, she's shared her knowledge in a beautiful new book, A Year Full Of Pots, which covers pots for every season and palette.
She reveals that the most common mistake gardeners make is picking up random plants in garden centres which they think look pretty, but without a design in mind.
"I'm very strict. I just give you the recipes and I say, ignore them at your peril," says Sarah.
Here are some of Sarah's top tips for perfecting your own pots... COLOUR PALETTES Sarah uses four colour palettes for her pots.
1. Dark and rich "I use crimsons and mahogany, deep purple and bronzes," says
Sarah.
They suck up the light and she thinks of them as the velvet colours you envelop yourself in. They might include deep red dahlias, or tulips in shades of burnt orange and almost black.
"The dark and rich have to be in quite a well-lit place because otherwise they can form a bit of a black hole and be a bit on the sombre side," she adds.
I just give recipes ignore your Sarah planting "They need to be front of a border or front of yard space, and be quite well lit, or backlit, or planted with something sharp in colour behind them, like a euphorbia, so they are highlighted."
2. Boiled-sweet brilliant "This includes really radiant, stained glass colours," Sarah explains, incorporating blackcurrant, strawberry, raspberry, orange, lemon, lime and cobalt blue.
It might feature everything from zingy orange gerberas to raspberry red tulips and acid green euphorbias.
"I use this in one particular part of the garden that I walk through a lot and I want it to be stimulating and cheerful. Again, it needs good sunlight."
3. Soft and warm "I call these the cashmere jersey colours, so it's pastel, but in the warm palette." Think peach, milky coffee, ivory, faded coral and apricot.
"I love this palette in spring, particularly in my rose garden because the rose foliage, when it first emerges in spring, is copper and bronze and it really is beautiful with either the dark and rich or...
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