A Year Full of Flowers: Gardening for all seasons

by Sarah Raven, Jonathan Buckley (Photographer)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526626110
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/13/2021
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	531,062
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Sarah Raven worked as a doctor at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton before becoming a broadcaster, teacher and writer. She has cooked all her life for family and friends with an emphasis and commitment to goodness, healthiness and general wellbeing. Sarah runs her own cookery and gardening school at Perch Hill in East Sussex, and has established a mail order gardening company with 80,000 active customers. She has made regular appearances on the BBC's Great British Garden Revival and Gardener's World; and she is the author of Sarah Raven's Food for Friends and Family, Sarah Raven's Complete Christmas, Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook (which was the Guild of Food Writers' Cookery Book of the Year 2008), Sarah Raven's Wild Flowers and The Cutting Garden.

sarahraven.com / @srkitchengarden

Table of Contents

Introduction: Gardening at home 7

January and February: Colour for a grey time of year 21

Winter-flowering irises 30

Violas 38

Practical: pruning roses and sowing sweet peas 47

March: The surge of spring life 57

Narcissi 66

Layered borders 74

Practical: sowing seeds and planting dahlias 79

April: Tulipo mania 96 Tulips 91

Practical: staking and taking dahlia and chrysanthemum cuttings 121

May: When the world goes green 129

Wildflower meadow 138

Narcissi for grass 144

Alliums 150

Practical: planting half-hardy annuals, dahlias and pots 157

June: Scent, scent, scent 163

Roses 168

Salvias 184

Practical: making tea tonics, staking and dividing narcissi 191

July: Full-blown, bosomy marvellousness 199

Sweet peas 206

Nicotiana 220

Practical: maintaining sweet peas and conditioning cut flowers 227

August: A circus of annuals rolls in 237

Tender perennial climbers 244

Cosmos 252

Practical: taking care of pots and taking cuttings 263

September: Dahliafantasia 271

Dahlias 278

Slug and snail prevention 292

Practical: planting early bulbs and forcing hyacinths and amaryllis 297

October: Tender perennials give us a colour boost 303

Salvias 310

Nasturtiums 318

Chrysanthemums 326

Practical: planting bulbs and making a dahlia bulb lasagne 335

November and December: There's more to winter than Christmas 341

Pelargoniums 346

Amaryllis 356

Practical: planting tulips and making living decorations 365

Index 376

Acknowledgements 383

Editorial Reviews

Detailed and inspiring, it's a must-read for novice and seasoned gardeners alike.” —Country Living

“A brilliantly helpful guide to filling the garden with successive waves of colour … A great book for resetting jaded palettes” —Country Life

“Full of inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice for a beautiful garden all-year round” —Countryside

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