'I like being in this very unfashionable part of the English countryside' - Heathcliff O'Malley It’s a busy morning at Sarah Raven’s horticultural empire, Perch Hill Farm. Situated deep in the East ...

'There can be a smokescreen around gardening. People are intimidated and they think it’s difficult – it isn’t' ...

She says they’re essential to the character of the one-and-a-half acre garden at her home, Perch Hill in East Sussex, which is also the base of her garden school – and over the years, she and her team ...