Graeme Corbett of Bloom & Burn isn't your usual florist. Working from his studio in Kent, he uses locally grown flowers to create wild, loose arrangements with a modern feel. In Life in Bloom, he teaches you everything you need to know about growing and arranging flowers at home – including which rules to follow, and which ones to break – in a bid to find your own style.  
 
Inviting you into his studio and garden, Graeme takes you through the seasons by way of his favourite flowers. Discover narcissi and ranunculus in spring; peonies and poppies in summer; dahlias and phlox in autumn; and dried honesty and forced blossom in winter. For each flower, Graeme gives advice on growing, choosing varieties, sourcing and conditioning before teaching stunning arrangements. Play with colour, form and texture and gain the confidence to go bigger.  

You’ll learn how to: 

• Grow and source and abundance of flowers.
• Create stunning arrangements using bowls, vases and moss bases. 
• Build seasonal bouquets and showstopping centrepieces for tables and events. 
• Experiment with colour, texture and shape to find your own floral style. 
• Learn how to dry flowers and force bulbs and blossom to extend the season. 
• Apply simple, sustainable techniques that bring professional polish to your work. 
• Develop the confidence to design freely, whether with garden stems or market flowers. 

Beautifully photographed and filled with Graeme’s practical advice and creative encouragement, Life in Bloom is a generous book for anyone wanting to learn more about growing, gathering and arranging flowers. 

This ancient flower is one of the most popular plants cultivated today, and has amassed a wealth of symbolism throughout its history.

However, they are famously fussy. Everybody has a different tip, trick or close-guarded secret for keeping orchids alive you’ve probably heard of using icecubes as watering technique, or sunning the roots for example. With so much debate this beloved species, it can be hard to separate fact from fiction.

We’re here to cut through the noise and give you exactly what you need to keep your plant happy, healthy and continually blooming. All you need is the patience of an orchid

This is how to keep an orchid alive.

Turn your garden into a year-round celebration of colour with award-winning garden designer,  Ann-Marie Powell. Based on her own vibrant garden, A Year of Colour shares over 40 tried-and-tested planting combinations for full colour in every season.  
 
Whether you have a tiny courtyard or acres of land, your garden is the one place devoted to joy. In A Year of Colour, Ann-Marie Powell invites you into her own garden to share her absolute favourite planting combinations – from sultry tulip displays to autumn jewel tones – so that you too can have a bold and bright garden whatever your space or season.  

Structured into eight easy-to-follow chapters, this joyful guide invites you to:  

• Explore over 40 ready-made, tried-and-tested planting combinations that span the seasons. Each includes detailed plant profiles, colour charts and expert tips, making vibrant and achievable colour effortless.  
• Master Ann-Marie’s essential tasks and step-by-step tutorials at the end of every chapter. Learn how to fill gaps in borders, extend the season with clever tricks, plant bulb lasagnes and create cheerful forced displays for midwinter.  
• Enjoy Julie Skelton’s stunning photography, capturing colour as a living, shifting performance.  

Perfect for gardeners who want more colour and aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty, A Year of Colour will show you how to create a garden that’s bold, beautiful and brimming with life.  

Design stunning floral arrangements for holiday hosting, special occasions, gifting to friends, or simply making any day a little brighter and more beautiful. This easy-to-use deck includes 30 how-to recipe cards for creating gorgeous seasonal arrangements, including:

• A lush harvest tablescape
• A welcoming holiday wreath
• A summer-sweet centerpiece for al fresco dining
• A “grateful guest” bundle to present to your host
• Bouquets for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and more

A petite booklet outlines the basics-essential tools and a flower glossary for easy reference-to get you started, and each card features  a photo of a flower arrangement and step-by-step instructions. The Floral Project Deck makes it easier than ever for flower lovers to make their own gorgeous designs at home.

FLOWER ARRANGING FOR ALL: These flower recipes are uncomplicated, and every card provides clear instructions and a photo, ensuring any hobbyist can easily recreate these beautiful bouquets and bundles regardless of skill level.

FLORAL ART THROUGHOUT THE YEAR: A simmer pot to welcome the new year, a pastel bouquet for Mother’s Day, a charming flower crown to mark the summer solstice, a colorful kale autumnal centerpiece, a festive holiday wreath: These 30 floral projects incorporate seasonal blooms, ensuring you have a gorgeous arrangement for every time of year.  

GIFT FOR FLOWER LOVERS: With beautiful flower photography and an eye-catching package, The Floral Project Deck makes a lovely companion for flower enthusiasts and a perfect present for any celebratory occasion.

Perfect for:

• Anyone who likes to arrange flowers
• Novice or professional florists
• Gardeners, flower lovers, and nature enthusiasts
• People who  buy blooms at the farmer’s market or grocery store
• Gift-giving for Mother’s Day, birthday, housewarming, or holiday

This book has 40 wreaths and flower arrangements for all occasions and seasons, from the first longing for spring and burgeoning greenery via summer light and harvest time to Christmas and winter rest. All wreaths have clear step-by-step instructions in text and pictures, and facts about which materials are suitable for the different seasons. Written by florist, photographer, and writer Malin Björkholm, whose wreaths and flower arrangements have become famous on Instagram due to their simplicity and use of natural materials.

The Joy of Wintering celebrates the ways in which the joys of spring are made possible at any stage of life by periods of rest and recuperation.

Through practical tips and lessons from cultures with a strong wintering tradition, learn why rest should be celebrated not stigmatised, and how to live more consciously and compassionately.

So many of us have experienced periods of burnout, influenced by a range of factors. This book is a rallying cry to make space for times of feast and fallow to improve productivity, make space for creativity and finding your presence in moments of clarity. It is for those who want to unlock their potential and adjust to our new normal, largely inspired by the conversations forced upon us by the pandemic.

Drawing upon different cultures with a strong tradition of rest and recuperation, this book will be full of practical activities, inspirational quotes and aims to provide a space for readers to embrace stillness. The chapters cover: what we see, what to listen out for, what to touch, what to taste, what to breathe; including craft activities, recipes, meditations, and much more.

Recent years have seen a surge in the popularity of linocut and woodcut printmaking. People are finding joy in working with their hands again, and these methods make it easy – it’s possibly the only printmaking medium you can do easily on the kitchen table at home.

Botanical Block Printing is your companion on the journey of crafting relief prints from scratch, always with a botanical theme and beautifully presented in, printmaker and author, Rosanna Morris’ contemporary and gentle aesthetic.

Richly photographed, the book is a practical how-to guide covering getting set up, what you need, equipment and so on, followed by a comprehensive introduction to processes and techniques. You’ll even learn how to make your own botanical inks, adding a personal touch to your creations. Step-by-step projects including making block prints on both paper and fabric are included and there are interviews with fellow printmakers who specialise in natural subjects.

Bound with a special exposed-spine binding allows the book to lay (and stay) open without any bending whilst it’s being used as an instructional manual. The inside flap extends outwards to reveal an accurate ruler; handy to have nearby for when measurements are needed. The flap can then be folded inwards again, to bookmark a page and come back to a project later on. Finished with a burnt-orange thread running through the spine for an organic touch, this book is a real hands-on experience that’s both durable and artistically crafted.

Above all, this is a beautiful and visually inspiring book unlike any other on the market.

Contents

Tools & Materials

Getting Set Up

Drawing and Transferring to a Block

Printing on Paper

Printing on Fabric

Using Colour

Creating and Using Botanical Inks

Projects include: Handmade paper print, Tablecloth, One-colour linocut, Paper studio folder, fabric printed table runner, two-colour prints, printing with foraged flowers, making your own pigment

Based on Lindsey Taylor’s popular Wall Street Journal column ‘Flower School,’ on its surface this book demonstrates how Taylor creates stunning but achievable floral arrangements inspired by works of art. Riffing on works by a diversity of artists across mediums, periods, and styles, including Alice Neel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julie Mehretu, Sheila Hicks, Willem de Kooning, Georgia O’Keeffe, Frank Stella, Salman Toor, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Kerry James Marshall, among others, Taylor inspires readers to interpret the palettes, compositions, brushstrokes, and mood of the art in flowers, and shares florists’ trade secrets for building beautiful arrangements. Through this meditative practice of looking intently at art and nature, readers learn, in the words of David Hockney, ‘to really look,’ and to really see the world.