This week Alan Gray (East Ruston Old Vicarage) and Thordis are catching up with one of their Talking Dirty favourites, Val Bourne. The award-winning garden writer and Organic Gardener shares favourite plants from her own garden this Autumn, plus the Sweet Peas she'll be sowing on November 5th and great seed-sowing advice for all kinds of plants.

PLANT LIST

Hepatica nobilis

Euphorbia griffithii 'Fireglow'

Euphorbia epithymoides/E. polychroma

Euphorbia palustris

Symphytum caucasicum

Digitalis lutea

Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple'

Miscanthus sinensis var. condensatus 'Cosmopolitan'

Rosa 'Wickwar'

Cotinus 'Grace'

Cotinus cogyggria 'Smokey Joe' 

Lathyrus nervosus

Euonymus europaeus 'Red Cascade'

Euonymus sachalinensis syn. E. planipes

Chrysanthemum 'E.H.Wilson'

Chrysanthemum 'Emperor of China' 

Colchicum autumnale 'Nancy Lindsay'

Colchicum 'Benton End'

Colchicum 'Glory of Threave'

Rosa 'Pearl Drift'

Rosa 'Pippin'

Rosa 'The Generous Gardener'

Rosa 'Gardenia'

Galanthus reginae-olgae 'Tilebarn Jamie'

Galanthus elwesii 'Remember Remember'

Galanthus 'Ruby's Green Dream'

Galanthus 'Donald Simms Early' 

Smyrnium perfoliatum

Arum italicum subsp. italicum 'Marmoratum'

Orlaya grandiflora

Monarda hybrida 'Lambada' 

Papaver commutatum 'Ladybird'

Papaver somniferum, 'Sissinghurst White' 

Lathyrus odoratus 'Henry Eckford' 

Lathyrus odoratus 'Gwendoline'

Lathyrus odoratus 'Our Harry'

Lathyrus odoratus 'Jilly'

Lathyrus odoratus 'Leamington'

Lathyrus odoratus 'Mrs Bernard Jones'

Dictamnus albus

Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Cassian's Choice' 

Tulipa sprengeri

Amsonia tabernaemontana

Amsonia illustris

Bukiniczia cabulica 

Impatiens balfourii 

Erigeron annuus

Hesperantha coccinea 'Pink Princess'

Salvia 'Royal Bumble'