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A Year Full of Flowers: Gardening for all seasons
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
Fill your garden with flowers all-year round with inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice from Sarah Raven.
Colour and scent are the hallmarks of Sarah Raven's style – and they are simple luxuries that everyone can bring into their garden.
A Year Full of Flowers reveals the hundreds of hardworking varieties that make the garden sing each month, together with the practical tasks that ensure everything is planted, staked and pruned at just the right time.
Tracing the year from January to December at her home, Perch Hill, Sarah offers a complete and transporting account of a garden crafted over decades. Sharing the lessons learned from years of plant trials, she explains the methods that have worked for her, and shows you how to achieve a space that's full of life and colour.
Discover long-lasting, divinely scented tulips, roses that keep flowering through winter, the most magnificent dahlias and show-stopping alliums, as well as how to grow sweet peas up a teepee, take cuttings from chrysanthemums and stop mildew in its tracks.
This is passionate, life-enriching gardening; it's also simple, adaptable and can work for you. Sarah has made the garden central to her life – this book shows you how you can too.
Fill your garden with flowers all-year round with inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice from Sarah Raven.
Colour and scent are the hallmarks of Sarah Raven's style – and they are simple luxuries that everyone can bring into their garden.
A Year Full of Flowers reveals the hundreds of hardworking varieties that make the garden sing each month, together with the practical tasks that ensure everything is planted, staked and pruned at just the right time.
Tracing the year from January to December at her home, Perch Hill, Sarah offers a complete and transporting account of a garden crafted over decades. Sharing the lessons learned from years of plant trials, she explains the methods that have worked for her, and shows you how to achieve a space that's full of life and colour.
Discover long-lasting, divinely scented tulips, roses that keep flowering through winter, the most magnificent dahlias and show-stopping alliums, as well as how to grow sweet peas up a teepee, take cuttings from chrysanthemums and stop mildew in its tracks.
This is passionate, life-enriching gardening; it's also simple, adaptable and can work for you. Sarah has made the garden central to her life – this book shows you how you can too.
- GenresGardeningNonfiction
384 pages, Hardcover
Published July 13, 2021
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April 4, 2021
A perfect guide to all things flowers - great advice and stunningly beautiful pictures to inspire.
March 8, 2022
A beautiful, extremely helpful book. From deep dives into specific garden plants and their varieties to providing monthly to-do lists, Raven's advice and eye are very sharp. I would absolutely recommend to gardeners of any level.
February 21, 2022
A gorgeous book with the most delicious flowers. I have a huge list of “wants” and have been shopping on line for some of these plants. This book fed my soul.
March 5, 2024
Read on Veronica’s recommendation, and I’m glad I did!
Such beautiful flowers and an inspiration to become a ✨real✨ gardener so that I could also have colour and fresh flowers all year. Maybe one day.
The thing to best keep in mind for me was that the author lives and grows in southwest England and the climate is quite temperate there with lots of natural watering done 😉 If I want to imitate her, I just need to pay attention to the things that grow well around me and recognize that other things may take a lot more time and attention (bad for a lazy gardener like me!)
Such beautiful flowers and an inspiration to become a ✨real✨ gardener so that I could also have colour and fresh flowers all year. Maybe one day.
The thing to best keep in mind for me was that the author lives and grows in southwest England and the climate is quite temperate there with lots of natural watering done 😉 If I want to imitate her, I just need to pay attention to the things that grow well around me and recognize that other things may take a lot more time and attention (bad for a lazy gardener like me!)
January 2, 2024
Fantastic book! It is full of useful ideas that help in making a year long plan. The photos are wonderful. Above all, I love how the book is organized with what is growing and what to do throughout each month.
February 19, 2022
Oh, to be a gardener on a massive estate in England! This was a wonderful winter escape with drool-worthy photos as well as practical tips.
July 25, 2023
Beautiful photos, lots of meaningful information, organized very well.
April 5, 2024
A wonderful read from an amazing Gardener. Fascinating tips and walks through the seasons in Pech Hill and how to create harmony and colour in your own garden no matter the size.
June 24, 2024
Loved it
February 2, 2025
Beautiful book
March 20, 2022
Beautiful photos will have you wanting to plant your yard full of cutting flowers!
August 12, 2021
I love this book. I need acres of land now so that I can grow all the plants and flowers I want. Beautifully written and easy to read, amazing photographs.
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