Sarah Raven Events | Gardening Workshops
Tuesday 14th - Friday 17th October
Price: £195 per person
Cut Flower Growing & Arranging with Sarah Raven in Surrey
A Year Full of Pots with Sarah Raven
Wednesday 15th October 2025 10:30am - 3:30pm
Sarah’s most recent book, A Year Full of Pots, is all about containers at Perch Hill of which there are currently over 500, huge, large and small. Together with Josie, head gardener at Perch Hill, she tests and trials a great range of container plants year on year and has done now for 15 years.
Sarah starts by taking you through her colour theory, moving onto recipes for pots for all times of year using her favourite container plant choices. Whether it’s with tulips and wallflowers in spring, or dahlias, annuals and perennials for summer and autumn, the day is jam-packed with ideas for pots for any site and situation, grand or small, sun or shade. You’ll get it all. In the afternoon, Josie and the Perch Hill gardeners will give demonstrations including bulb lasagnes, taking cuttings, pot structures and ‘Paper White’ tiered wedding cake.
This course is taught by Sarah as well as Josie and the Perch Hill gardeners. It is a lecture with slides format, with practical demonstrations too. You will get a course handout covering all the information Sarah teaches on the day. Autumn course with practical advice, design tips and colour guidance to inspire you to create magnificent and brim full pots.
The day lasts from 10:30am until 3:30pm, including tea/coffee on arrival, (from 10am for a 10:30am prompt start), a morning tea/coffee break and a 2 course lunch using recipes from Sarah’s cookbooks.
A Year Full of Flowers with Sarah Raven
Thursday 16th October 2025 10:30am - 3:30pm
Tracing the year from January to December at her home, Perch Hill, Sarah offers a complete and transporting account of a garden crafted over decades. Sharing the lessons learned from years of plant trials, she explains the methods that have worked for her, and shows you how to achieve a space that’s full of life and colour.
Colour and scent are the hallmarks of Sarah’s style - and they are simple luxuries that everyone can bring into their garden. On this day course, she will give you inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice for a beautiful garden all-year round. Sarah will show you her favourites of the hardworking varieties that make the garden sing. Discover long-lasting, divinely scented tulips, roses that keep flowering through much of summer and well into autumn, the most magnificent dahlias and show-stopping alliums, as well as how to grow sweet peas up a teepee, take cuttings from pelargoniums or salvias and stop mildew in its tracks. This is passionate, life-enriching gardening; it’s also simple, adaptable and can work for you. Sarah has made the garden central to her life - this course shows you how you can too.
This course is taught by Sarah in the morning and in the afternoon Josie and the Perch Hill gardeners will give demonstrations including bulb lasagnes, taking cuttings, pot structures and our ‘Paper White’ tiered wedding cake. This course will give you inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice for a beautiful, colourful garden all-year round.
The day lasts from 10:30am until 3:30pm, including tea/coffee on arrival, (from 10am for a 10:30am prompt start), a morning tea/coffee break and a 2 course lunch using recipes from Sarah’s cookbooks.
The Kaleidoscope Garden with Sarah Raven
Friday 17th October 2025 10:30am - 2:30pm
Sarah and the team in the Perch Hill garden work with 4 garden palettes which between them include every colour, but keep them mainly separate to create harmonious and beautiful combinations wherever you look.
In this morning with Sarah she will take you through what colours make up each of the four palettes and which are the best possible plants to give you your chosen palette right through the growing year. Based on four different garden areas at Perch Hill, Sarah will explain which hold the colour baton in a perfect flower succession relay race so your garden never needs to take a colour and flower drip from March until November.
Colour makes the garden sing, learn how to create the perfect colour palette for your garden as Sarah shares her beautiful combinations. The day lasts from 10:30am until 2:30pm, including tea/coffee on arrival, (from 10am for a 10:30am prompt start), a morning tea/coffee break and a 2 course lunch using recipes from Sarah’s cookbooks
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Parking is free and at the main entrance or for those wanting to park overnight, you can park in our overflow car park located opposite the venue main entrance.
There is a wheelchair lift that can be used to access toilets and to help navigate the areas inside with ease.
A hearing loop is available.
TAXIS
Please bear in mind that due to our rural location, Uber and similar booking-apps do not work. Therefore please pre-book your taxis via one of our recommended companies: Waverley Cars (01483 385858), GM Cars (01483 566 566) or Five & Sixes (01483 565 656).
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