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From Seed to Bloom: A Year of Growing and Designing with Seasonal Flowers
Milli Proust is inspired by the way plants grow in the wild, and she loves working with what she grows, creating romantic and playful designs for weddings, events, brands and personal clients. All of her crops are all grown in rhythm with nature, and are completely chemical-free in a passionate effort to protect our surrounding wildlife.
In January 2017, she made the move from London, where she was born and raised, to a deeply rural pocket of West Sussex. It may be only an hour back to the city by train, but it often feels so much further away than that. She fell in love with her pocket of countryside, deep in the woods, growing as much beauty as she could. In the few years of making this her home, she has learnt to see the seasons change, not just from winter to spring, from spring to summer, but from week to week, each and every day bringing new promise, change and subtle shift.
When she is not tending to the crops or creating and installing floral work, she works as an actress for radio, stage, and television.
In January 2017, she made the move from London, where she was born and raised, to a deeply rural pocket of West Sussex. It may be only an hour back to the city by train, but it often feels so much further away than that. She fell in love with her pocket of countryside, deep in the woods, growing as much beauty as she could. In the few years of making this her home, she has learnt to see the seasons change, not just from winter to spring, from spring to summer, but from week to week, each and every day bringing new promise, change and subtle shift.
When she is not tending to the crops or creating and installing floral work, she works as an actress for radio, stage, and television.
- GenresGardeningNonfiction
208 pages, Hardcover
Published June 21, 2022
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June 23, 2022
I devoured this book. Already obsessed with Milli’s moody Instagram, I knew, if anything, the pictures would be worth every penny. But Milli writes gorgeously, like she’s writing specifically to you, her special pen pal. It is also a very useful book for quick and practical notes about starting seeds, growing flowers, and creating sustainable floral designs. I’m so glad this book is now in my library.
June 10, 2023
An expedition in flower arranging and growing from seed. Milli's lyrical descriptions of her voyage from the greys of London to the chocolate of the earth in West Sussex is wonderful. Memory, curiosity, and a love of these garden jewels takes the reader along for the ride.
The book has lovely images of the fields, the flowers, and her arrangements.
This is not a botany science book.
Follow the movement, a swelling of mostly women purchasing mud boots and scouring through online seed growers to plan just a few acres. I've known this lifestyle in my bones and dogs paws.
I lived in London forever ago, though I'm not English. My next home was Los Angeles. I moved out of my loft on Industrial Street (only for love) to put down roots the Central Valley and started a rose farm. I've created wedding flowers for fun. Flower captivation I call it. Since uprooting many times is my path I owned another farm from 2016 until the end of Covid. I moved again to town into a beige condo to be in walking distance to my youngest sister who is dying. This book helped me at night before I went to sleep to recall happy times in the testing fields. Milli's book was a balm of jasmine and rose to my heart when I had promised not to cry. Still holding to an image - no, not the one where the face of a young woman is disguised by a huge bouquet, as is a common pose standing in the rows of flowers ~ the picture I draw is myself and my sister ~ young, though in reality we are not today ~ with baskets of peonies at our feet and the sun warming our faces, smiling at the camera.
Buy this book. You will find joy, refer to it on a dark day.
The book has lovely images of the fields, the flowers, and her arrangements.
This is not a botany science book.
Follow the movement, a swelling of mostly women purchasing mud boots and scouring through online seed growers to plan just a few acres. I've known this lifestyle in my bones and dogs paws.
I lived in London forever ago, though I'm not English. My next home was Los Angeles. I moved out of my loft on Industrial Street (only for love) to put down roots the Central Valley and started a rose farm. I've created wedding flowers for fun. Flower captivation I call it. Since uprooting many times is my path I owned another farm from 2016 until the end of Covid. I moved again to town into a beige condo to be in walking distance to my youngest sister who is dying. This book helped me at night before I went to sleep to recall happy times in the testing fields. Milli's book was a balm of jasmine and rose to my heart when I had promised not to cry. Still holding to an image - no, not the one where the face of a young woman is disguised by a huge bouquet, as is a common pose standing in the rows of flowers ~ the picture I draw is myself and my sister ~ young, though in reality we are not today ~ with baskets of peonies at our feet and the sun warming our faces, smiling at the camera.
Buy this book. You will find joy, refer to it on a dark day.
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July 18, 2024Четири сезона цветя, четири сезона щастие: https://knigolandia.info/chetiri-sezo...
Признавам, попрескачах лиричните описания, което не бих си позволил в друга книга, но тук определено диренето ми беше за конкретна информация, а не за емоционалните трепети, свързани с отглеждането на растения и колко щастие е това. Книгата е насочена основно именно към отглеждането на растения в истинска градина, а не към обичайното за нас, градските жители, силно ограничено откъм размах и възможности отглеждане на цветя в саксии и сандъчета. Част от по-универсалните съвети обаче ми бяха от полза, няма да влизам в излишни детайли, за да не проличи точно колко невеж съм в тази област, но всъщност немалка част от книгата – особено тази за аранжиране на различни букети или флорални композиции, си я прескочих откровено.
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https://knigolandia.info/chetiri-sezo...
Признавам, попрескачах лиричните описания, което не бих си позволил в друга книга, но тук определено диренето ми беше за конкретна информация, а не за емоционалните трепети, свързани с отглеждането на растения и колко щастие е това. Книгата е насочена основно именно към отглеждането на растения в истинска градина, а не към обичайното за нас, градските жители, силно ограничено откъм размах и възможности отглеждане на цветя в саксии и сандъчета. Част от по-универсалните съвети обаче ми бяха от полза, няма да влизам в излишни детайли, за да не проличи точно колко невеж съм в тази област, но всъщност немалка част от книгата – особено тази за аранжиране на различни букети или флорални композиции, си я прескочих откровено.
Издателство Ракета
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November 24, 2023
Beautiful pictures, helpful information about growing and harvesting a variety of flowers. Examples of bouquets and vase arrangements with lists of flowers and directions. I realized I need to grow more secondary/filler flowers.
April 2, 2024
Gorgeous pictures, beautifully written, descriptions of her life and garden throughout the year. Really helpful and practical tips for the season as well as specific flowers. Wonderful as a tablebook or a reference guide (or both).
August 16, 2022
A beautifully written book on flower gardening that helped to keep me inspired during the dog days of summer.
January 23, 2023
Longing for flowers.
Best book to read on a cold January day, on the couch, with a double blanket because you're ill, and summer seems a long long while away.
Best book to read on a cold January day, on the couch, with a double blanket because you're ill, and summer seems a long long while away.
July 24, 2023
This one’s an Always Must Have on the bookshelf 💖
November 10, 2024
Beautiful book with personal anecdotes of someone who likes gardening as much as me.
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