Product Description

Sarah Raven, flower arranger to the rich and famous, shows how to fill the home with the colour, scent, and style of garden-grown flowers. The Cutting Garden combines down-to-earth advice with innovative ideas for an abundance of floral arrangements for informal, elegant or romantic settings. With practical but inspirational ideas, Raven outlines planning, planting, and maintaining well-stocked cutting gardens of various sizes. Plants are organized by season, colour, and size; instructions on growing, picking, and conditioning are included. Step-by-step instructions and brilliant photos demonstrate how to achieve professional effects with simple bunches, romantic globes, swags, and medallions. This book provides gardening and flower enthusiasts with a cornucopia of ideas for adding a dash of home-grown colour to their interior decoration.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #515520 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-15
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 2.58 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 168 pages

From Library Journal
In this extremely beautiful and practical book, Raven, a British "flower arranger to the rich and famous," presents gorgeous color photos of her own cutting garden in Sussex. Personal, clear, well organized, and direct in her writing style, she begins with tips for laying out a cutting garden to provide flowers throughout the year and goes on to discuss cultivation, cutting, conditioning, and basic arranging principles. She then suggests truly stunning flower arrangements for each season, indicating instructions, equipment, plants, and methods for each. The final section is a catalog of the author's favorite cutting flowers and foliage arranged by season and color, including illustrations to scale and conditioning and cultivation requirements. This book, which provides a wealth of information and inspiration, is unlike any other the reviewer has seen. While the flower selections are suitable to northern zones, the principles can be adapted by gardeners in all climates. Highly recommended.?Carol Cubberley, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
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Review
... a joyous book, with wonderfully detailed photographs by Pia Tryde -- 01/10/2006 Woman & Home ... a stunningly beautiful book for flower arrangers, where glorious photographs are backed up by sound, practical advice Practical Gardening

Ingram
From planting beds and borders to arranging flowers and foliage, this lavishly illustrated guide explains how to turn the glories of the garden into glorious floral displays for the home. Over 400 full color photos, 4 full color planting plans.