Description: Bring the vibrant joy of your garden inside with this essential guide to growing and arranging cut flowers from Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Raven.
Brief description:
Since the publication of her first book The Cutting Garden Sarah has led the way over the last three decades in introducing a new kind of productive gardening which fuses intense colour, elegance and do-ability, bridging all kinds of gardening from dark rich dahlia glories to subtler smoky modern colours of poppies, roses, sweet peas, and all kinds of vegetable deliciousness. She is a teacher, broadcaster, has a popular gardening podcast Grow, Cook, Eat, Arrange with colleague Arthur Parkinson and runs a mail order plant nursery and online store sarahraven.com, (with 500,000 customers). She is the author of many books, most recently A Year Full of Flowers which was a Sunday Times bestseller.
sarahraven.com / @sarahravensgardenReview Quotes:
"[An] outstanding resource for anyone who appreciates growing flowers . . . Raven provides essential tips about seed-starting for early to late blooms in the garden . . . This is a book that will stay in my garden room for endless reference and ideas." --Washington Gardener
"An inspirational and instructive . . . seed-to-stem guide to luscious homegrown bouquets. Unlike most garden books that lead with aspirational pictures and bury the hardworking growing tips at the end, A Year of Cut Flowers sets flower-loving gardeners up for success with practical advice . . . then the book seduces you with the myriad possibilities . . . Beautiful, atmospheric photos . . . illustrate seasonal shifts, practical steps and glorious finished arrangements." --The Seattle Times "This inspirational book is filled with gorgeous photography of cut flowers in every month of the year and loads of practical tips, like: dip freshly cut flower stems briefly in a mug of just-boiled water to prevent wilting--especially in spring." --Cultivating Color "British garden expert Raven offers another inviting, abundant, considered book about growing beautiful things . . . A key title for all collections, Raven's newest is practical, hands-on, and instructional as well as personal, intimate, inspiring, and delightful to page through." --Library Journal, starred review "A Year of Cut Flowers is a book that will guide you in bringing . . . blooms inside properly . . . Here, you'll learn which go-to plants to have in your plot, how to make sure you've got color in your garden from early until frost, how to get the most of your plants, and how to keep them fresh-looking and gorgeous for a lot longer inside. Bonus: photos! Lots of them, which will help keep you inspired while your greenery still slumbers awhile." --The Bookworm Sez "Every book by Sarah Raven is a treat." --The Times