In this beautiful guide to planning, planting, and maintaining a bountiful home flower garden, Clare Nolan reveals her secrets for growing a bountiful harvest as well as styling spectacular displays that will fill your home with color and the gorgeous scent of the garden year-round.
Planting cut flowers brings that 'grow-your-own' excitement to a whole new level - being able to step out of the back door and pick a single stem for beside the bed or pull together a posy for a friend is a joy. In this beautifully designed book, brimming with inspirational photographs, Clare Nolan reveals her secrets for growing a bountiful harvest as well as styling spectacular homegrown displays that will fill your home with colour and the gorgeous scent of the garden year-round.
She takes the mystique out of what to grow and guides you through the entire process - from choosing the plants to suit both your garden and home decor and laying out your cutting patch, to planning ahead so you get your perfect palette of colour, texture and shape to play with at the right time. A whole chapter on arranging will inspire you to create spectacular arrangements for your home without the need for complicated floristry techniques.
About the Author
Clare Nolan has worked within the lifestyle magazine industry for nearly 15 years as an interiors stylist and writer. She is currently the Lifestyle Editor of YOU magazine (Mail on Sunday) with a readership of over 5 million. Clare's work has also appeared in the Saturday Telegraph Magazine, the Sunday Times Magazine, Style and House & Garden. She has worked on a freelance basis as a consultant, trend forecaster and stylist for interiors trade exhibitions as well as UK high street stores such as Marks & Spencer, John Lewis and Ikea.