Inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice for a beautiful garden all-year round Inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice for a beautiful garden all-year round
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.
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This book is a superior article without doubt the best horticultural offering of the year. * Sunday Telegraph * Detailed and inspiring, its 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 * Every book by Sarah Raven is a treat * The Times * Informative and companionable ... Most of us aim to have something in flower throughout the year, and this selection should ensure that you succeed. * Sunday Times * Full of inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice for a beautiful garden all-year round * Countryside * Both practical and beautiful, this is a go-to gift for the green-fingered * Culture Whisper *
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Fill your garden with flowers all-year round with inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice from Sarah Raven
| Introduction: Gardening at home |
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January and February: Colour for a grey time of year |
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Practical: pruning roses and sowing sweet peas |
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March: The surge of spring life |
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Practical: sowing seeds and planting dahlias |
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Practical: staking and taking dahlia and chrysanthemum cuttings |
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May: When the world goes green |
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Practical: planting half-hardy annuals, dahlias and pots |
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June: Scent, scent, scent |
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Practical: making tea tonics, staking and dividing narcissi |
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July: Full-blown, bosomy marvellousness |
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Practical: maintaining sweet peas and conditioning cut flowers |
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August: A circus of annuals rolls in |
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Tender perennial climbers |
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Practical: taking care of pots and taking cuttings |
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September: Dahliafantasia |
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Slug and snail prevention |
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Practical: planting early bulbs and forcing hyacinths and amaryllis |
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October: Tender perennials give us a colour boost |
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Practical: planting bulbs and making a dahlia bulb lasagna |
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November and December: There's more to winter than Christmas |
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Practical: planting tulips and making living decorations |
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| Index |
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| Acknowledgements |
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Since the publication of her first book The Cutting Garden Sarah has led the way over the last two and a half decades in introducing a new kind of productive gardening which fuses intense colour, elegance and do-ability, bridging all kinds of gardening from dark rich dahlia glories to subtler smoky modern colours of poppies, roses, sweet peas, and all kinds of vegetable deliciousness. She is a teacher, broadcaster, has a popular gardening podcast Grow, Cook, Eat, Arrange with colleague Arthur Parkinson and runs a mail order plant nursery, (with 500,000 customers). She is also the author of many books and is currently working on a book on colour.
sarahraven.com / @srkitchengarden
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