Traum eines jeden Gärtners ist es, ein farbiges Feuerwerk im Garten zu inszenieren, das vom Frühjahr bis in den Herbst anhält. Dieses aufwendig gestaltete und opulent bebilderte Buch vermittelt das nötige Rüstzeug: Wunderschöne, zeitgemäße Gestaltungsvorschläge, neue und ausgefallene Sorten und Farben sowie feinfühlig inszenierte Gartenbilder für jeden Standort und das ganze Gartenjahr.
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.
For the time-pressed vegetable enthusiast, finding, cooking and enjoying the best produce can seem like a fanciful sort of earthy daydream. In this definitive reference volume, Sarah Raven, award-winning author of The Great Vegetable Plot, explains once and for all how it can be done. Taking us through the year in six seasonal chunks of two months each, she introduces us to the best vegetables, fruit and herbs from around the world, all grown in the UK, and then shows us how to cook them in over 250 fresh, simple and delicious recipes. Practical, engaging, inspiring, and gorgeously realised with vivid photographs taken in Sarah's family garden in East Sussex, Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook offers a delicious repertoire of ideas that put vegetables, herbs and fruit at the centre of every meal.
Learn how to create a plentiful and productive cutting garden by following Sarah Raven' s expert advice every month of the year.
This stunning practical guide shows you how to plan and create a cutting garden from which glorious flower arrangements can be created, whether you're a beginner or an experienced flower gardener. From growing decorative flowers and foliage and maintaining a well-stocked cutting garden to creating floral arrangements ranging from simple bunches to romantic hanging globes, swags and medallions, this beautifully presented book provides all the information you need to get started with your own cutting garden. A must-have for any flower-lover's shelf!
Grow Your Own CUT FLOWERS distils everything Sarah Raven has learnt in five years of testing and cultivating the best possible cut flowers for growing at home.
The only book this year that provides every recipe and idea that you will need to plan and enjoy the months ahead of Christmas to New Year's Eve. Sarah Raven, author of 2007's stunning Garden Cookbook(voted cookbook of the year by the Guild of Food Writers' and the Independent), presents the last word on food, flowers and decorations for the Christmas season. First, Sarah guides us through the Christmas build-up, suggesting puddings, sauces and edible presents to prepare before everything becomes too hectic. She then offers maximum-impact, minimum-fuss flowers and decorations, stylish party nibbles and a host of Yuletide meals for every palate, including a last-minute recipe for the all-important Christmas pudding. Finally, she sees us safely through Christmas Day, Boxing Day and beyond, with fantastic ideas for the inevitable mountain of leftovers. Sarah Raven is the perfect companion for Christmas, with her unrivalled expertise both indoors and in the garden and her emphasis on traditional methods with a fresh, modern aesthetic. With 175 food recipes and 40 recipes for flowers, and complemented as always by Jonathan Buckley's sumptuous photographs, Sarah Raven's Christmas Bookwill be a must-have manual for every home next Christmas and for many years to come.
In a new, practical format - the stunning book celebrating British wild flowers by award-winning garden writer Sarah Raven.Inspired by childhood excursions with her botanist father, Sarah Raven has travelled the length and breadth of the British Isles to find 500 of our most breathtakingly beautiful wild flowers. This lavishly illustrated book is divided by habitat, covering woods, downs and dales, lanes and hedgerows, meadows, coast, marshes and streams, moors and mountains, and wasteland. Sarah introduces a wide range of plants, telling you their names and something about them. Discover pulsatillas, fritillaries, bluebells, wild garlic, harebells, forget-me-nots, foxgloves, wood spurge, silverweed,purple cranesbill, deadly nightshade, St John's wort, comfrey, orchids,wood sorrel, snowdrops and more.There are glorious landscape photographs by Jonathan Buckley throughout, and one of his stunning plant portraits accompanies each of Sarah's authoritative, captivating species descriptions. Informative and lovely, Sarah Raven's Wild Flowers is a botanical marvel.
Un guide plein d'inspiration pour cultiver dans son jardin les plus belles fleurs à couper et pour confectionner toute l'année de superbes bouquets qui décoreront la maison en toute occasion. * Des plans de jardin, des conseils et des idées tout au fil des saisons pour échelonner ses plantations et constituer une inépuisable réserve de fleurs à couper. * Les règles d'or de l'art floral : quand cueillir les fleurs, comment les préparer, comment les conserver, quel vase choisir... * 25 bouquets à réaliser soi-même expliqués geste à geste : compositons florales toutes simples ou sophistiquées, bouquets de mariée, décors de table, couronnes, guirlandes... * Un catalogue des 500 meilleures variétés de fleurs et de feuillages à couper, organisé par saison et par couleur et illustré par de somptueuses photographies qu'accompagnent de très utiles fiches de culture.
