Sarah Raven

Sarah Clare Raven (born 3 February 1963)[1] is an English gardener, cook and writer.

[8] and A Year Full of Flowers which describes her garden at Perch Hill in Sussex.

A BBC2 television series called Bees, Butterflies and Blooms, which she presented, focusing on the national decline in pollinating insects and championing nectar-rich flowers as a way of saving them, was broadcast in February 2012.

[10] She is married to writer Adam Nicolson, and has two daughters with him, plus three stepsons from his previous marriage.

Her family's move to a small farm in Sussex was depicted in Nicolson's book Perch Hill: A New Life.