The Flower Garden

How to Grow Flowers from Seed

by Clare Foster, photographs by Sabina Rüber

Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden

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Growing flowers from seed is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to supplement your borders, bringing instant colour to tired gardens. Many of these flowers are also ideal for cutting, so within a single growing season you can produce armfuls of beautiful blooms to cut and bring inside the house.

Author Clare Foster and photographer Sabina Rüber have been experimenting with growing flowers from seed for several years. In this book they pass on that invaluable experience, explaining how and when to sow and grow a huge range of flowers from Aquilegia to Zinnia.

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Clare Foster is Garden Editor at House & Garden magazine. She has contributed to numerous newspapers and is the author of Compost (2005), Your Allotment (2007) and, with Sabina Rüber, Painterly Plants (2012). Sabina Rüber is an acclaimed flower and garden photographer. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including House & Garden, Gardens Illustrated and The Telegraph. Her other books include (with Clare Foster) Painterly Plants (2012).

Clare Foster is Garden Editor at House & Garden magazine. She has contributed to numerous newspapers and is the author of Compost (2005), Your Allotment (2007) and, with Sabina Rüber, Painterly...

Advance Praise

'Simultaneously beautiful and practical' The English Garden

'An absorbing reference work for beginners and intermediates alike... delightful' Garden Answers

'An absolutely gorgeous, useful book... Highly recommended' Laetitia Maklouf, author of Sweet Peas for Summer: How to Create a Garden in a Year

'Simultaneously beautiful and practical' The English Garden

'An absorbing reference work for beginners and intermediates alike... delightful' Garden Answers

'An absolutely gorgeous, useful book...

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ISBN	9781786274090
PRICE	£19.99 (GBP)

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The Flower Garden: How to Grow Flowers from Seed by Clare Foster, photographs by Sabina Ruber

March 25, 2019
Crafts&amp;Hobbies, Gardening
Lawrence King Publishing LTD
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I received this digital ARC book from NetGalley and Lawrence King Publishing in exchange for an unbiased review.

This is a wonderful book filled with inspiration to start your own flower garden. The illustrations provide a beautiful depiction of some of the varieties of plant featured. It is well organized by plant listing important information to consider when growing by seed. The flowers are sorted into groups which help you determine where they might be best suited. There is a section about cottage flowers and another about exotic and edible flowers. Aside from providing sowing and growing instructions this book also gives suggestions on how to use your flowers.

It is true that once you attempt to grow a plant from seed it becomes an obsession. After so many failed attempts, there isn’t anything more exciting than seeing a sprout emerge from the soil! A wonderful addition to any gardener’s library.

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