Perch Hill Garden

Dear readers,
yesterday our travel group visited Sarah Raven´s beautiful garden- Perch Hill Garden. I have heard a lot about Sarah Raven before I went on my England Garden journey and also read her book about Sissinghurst Garden. I was happy that Sarah Raven herself guided us through her garden, telling us about her many lovely plants. Sarah regularly travels to various countries, for instance the Netherlands, where she is looking for new plant varieties. She chooses the varieties she likes best, takes them back to England and then cultivates them in England for some years. The varieties that proof themselves as beautiful and healthy plants will then be sold in Sarah Raven´s shop. Sarah also creates plant collections every year. She for example grows selected tulips for a couple of years and then sees which tulip combinations grow well in England and which ones of these can be combined beautifully.
We also met Sarah Raven´s husband Adam Nicolson, Vita Sackville West´s grandson. It was wonderful being at Perch Hill, enjoying all the beautiful colours and delicious smells. I especially loved Sarah Raven´s cutting gardens and decided that I would like to have a cutting flower bed in my own garden. However, this might have to wait till next year as I have so many other garden projects on my to do list. There is also a shop at Perch Hill and I purchased a great variety of seeds. I am looking forward to sow them next year or maybe I will even try some this year, but I think it might be too late for some flowers now.
Hope you enjoy!
Lisa

I loved Sarah Raven´s large collection of deliciously smelling sweet peas. They seem to grow very vigorously in England. 

Papaver somniferum looking very beautiful. They offer a great variety of beautiful poppy varieties in England, which I have never seen being sold in Austria. I bought many poppy seeds and hope they will bloom as beautifully in my garden next year.