Accessible and satisfying, growing flowers in pots is a versatile and fun way to enhance any plot, from small city yards to gardens with space. Get the pots right and your garden will take on a cheerful energy of its own. They are the bubbles in the champagne; the cherries on the cake; the final enhancement of what makes a garden beautiful. And with pots, there is one iron rule: more is more.
Discover practical design tips that will really enhance your pots. Use ingenious tricks when combining flower colours such as choosing a BRIDE (the star of the show), a BRIDESMAID (similar to the bride but smaller and less conspicuous) and a GATECRASHER (the colour contrast, which brings the whole thing to life).
Learn all about the types of forms and plant structures ' Thriller, Filler, Pillar and Spiller ' and how to put them to best use. And take on the simplest of ideas, such as raising flower pots onto a wall or table so you see more of them, for instant impact.
A Year Full of Pots
Sarah Raven
Master the art of growing flowers in pots all year round with inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice from Sarah Raven, the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Year Full of Flowers and A Year Full of Veg
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Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: March 2024
Format: Hardback 230 x 170mm
Ext: 384 pp
About the Author
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