From Seed to Bloom: A Year of Growing and Designing With Seasonal Flowers

by Milli Proust

With 26 projects, From Seed to Bloom is a modern and practical guide to growing and styling your own floral arrangements.

Starting by tackling the principles of floristry from seed to bloom, Milli takes you through the seasons and explores the top plants to grow and how to style them. Each chapter spotlights the growing highlights of the season with top tips on how to sow, grow and harvest. Milli also shares her own stories from the field to help inspire and encourage you to grow your own, with advice on soil health, composting, sustainable growing and how to plan your planting.

From Seed to Bloom includes beautiful lifestyle photography shot through the year from Milli's field, as well as step-by-step photography that celebrates the art of creating beautiful floral pieces, to gift and to keep. This is a book for those who seek an approachable and accessible insight into the wonderful world of flower growing and floral arranging.

Learn to play with colour and texture both in your planting and styling with From Seed to Bloom, as you learn how to create designs with confidence and bring nature into your home.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

224 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 9, 2022

Reviews

[Klaire McCallum · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Caroline Gerardo · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Христо Блажев]

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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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[Karen Soanes · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Jessica Lietzke · Rating 5 out of 5]

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).

[Jackie Cesanek · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautifully written book on flower gardening that helped to keep me inspired during the dog days of summer.

[Merel · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Brynn Moore · Rating 5 out of 5]

This one’s an Always Must Have on the bookshelf 💖

[Tess Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful book with personal anecdotes of someone who likes gardening as much as me.

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.75