“Garden Gathered” features floral designer Helen Leighton’s sustainable flower farming at Riverdale Farm in Western Australia. This limited edition book includes stunning visuals of floral arrangements, gardening insights, and 20 unique ensembles. Helen shares her expertise in sustainable design, showcasing her year-round cutting garden, romantic aesthetics, and connection to rural life.
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Dried flowers: a chat with author Bex Partridge
This stunning book, Everlastings: How to grow, harvest and create with dried flowers is a celebration of the life of flowers, showcasing the ethereal beauty of dried flowers. Author, Bex Partridge takes you on a journey, starting with practical advice on how to pick flowers both at your home and outdoors, with in-depth descriptions of…
‘Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom’ by Phaidon
This is a masterpiece. A comprehensive and sumptuous survey that celebrates the beauty and appeal of flowers throughout art, history and culture. Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom takes readers on a journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways artists and designers throughout history, from ancient Egypt to today, have depicted flowers and…
Floral fiction: If you had your time over, would you live the same life twice?
‘The Memories That Make Us’ If you dream of escaping to the country or growing flowers on your land, or indeed just have a thing for either flowers, the country life, romance and following your heart, you’re in for a treat. Melbourne writer Vanessa Carnevale has expertly captured the profound and enchanting effect of flowers…