Growing flowers is a terrific way to bring more beauty and meaning into your life. If you are interested in growing flowers, there are many flower gardening books for you to get you started!
I have worked as a gardener at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Seal Harbor, Maine, and as a manager at Witte Flower Farm in Salem, Oregon. It’s easy to see how much I love growing blooms! During this time, I’ve collected a few great books to help me learn about the art of flowers.
In this article, you’ll find my eight favorite flower gardening books to date. All the books listed are for both the beginner and the more knowledgeable grower.
Without further ado, here are my favorite flower gardening books!
The 8 Best Flower Gardening Books to Get You Growing
A Year Full of Flowers by Sarah Raven
Marked by exquisite color and scent, Sarah Raven invites you into the world of flower gardening. As a well-known name in the flower gardening world, Raven has created this inspiring guide to give you what you need to grow incredible flowers year-round. In A Year Full of Flowers, Raven will walk you through an entire year at her home showing you the lessons she’s learned, gardening methods that work best for her, hundreds of her favorite flower varieties, and how to create gardens bursting with life.
Growing Flowers by Niki Irving
Growing Flowers is the #1 best seller in flower gardening books and for a reason. In this book, you’ll find a wonderful account of a bouquet flower farm in North Carolina. You’ll learn about soil, seasonal flowers, making bouquets, tools of the trade, and much more. Plus, you’ll see beautiful flower gardens and arrangements that will ignite your excitement. Especially suited to the beginner gardener, Growing Flowers is the go-to guide for flower gardening in the US.
The Flower Farmer by Lynn Byczynski
The Flower Farmer has successfully helped hundreds of flower growers start their cut-flower businesses. In this guide, you will find thorough information about variety selection, post-harvest handling, cultivation, floral design, markets, and so much more. If you are thinking about growing flowers for market or evening starting a flower farm, this guide will be your best friend. Even if you’re growing just for yourself, there are many useful tips in this guide that will help you out, too.
Vegetables Love Flowers by Lisa Mason Ziegler
Growing flowers and vegetables together is one of the oldest ways of creating bounty in the garden. Vegetables Love Flowers is a revelry of the relationships in a garden and a guide to optimizing these relationships. In this book, you will learn how to use flowers as pest and disease control, to attract beneficial insects to your garden, and to retain moisture and nutrients. Plus, you’ll learn how to arrange your new companion flowers! So if you love veggie gardening and want to learn how to incorporate flowers and magnificence in your beds, this is the book for you.
Floret Farm’s Cut Flower Garden by Erin Senzakein and Julie Chai
Floret Flower Farm may be the most popular flower farm in the United States. Erin Senzakein and the Floret Flower Farm are known for growing flowers, selling stunning arrangements, and creating new flower varieties. In the captivating Floret Farm’s Cut Flower Garden, Senzakein gives you step-by-step guides for growing many varieties of flowers, tips for growing in different climates, and dozens of photos of the farm. Both a growing guide and a source of inspiration, this book will give you your money’s worth.
Martha’s Flowers by Martha Stewart and Kevin Sharkey
Famous in the worlds of home design and cooking, Martha Stewart has created another useful guide for homemakers. Martha’s Flowers is a culmination of her years growing flowers with her family and master gardeners. Both an inspirational and practical guide, this book will offer you Stewart’s favorite flower gardening practices, lessons she’s learned through the years, endless inspiration, and how-tos on cultivating, harvesting, and arranging exquisite blooms.
Everlastings by Bex Partridge
Everlastings is a celebration of the beauty of nature and flowers. In this book, Partridge shows you the wonder of working with flowers–both from the garden and foraged from the wild–in their preserved form. Not only will you learn how to grow plants for drying, but you learn how to dry flowers, seed pods, and foliage, learn to forage for wildflowers, and learn many different ways to create gorgeous dried arrangements. Everlastings is for the artistic gardener, whatever your skill level may be.
The Gardener’s Palette by Jo Thompson
Flower gardening isn’t just about growing attractive blooms to put in a vase, but about making your home beautiful, too. The Gardener‘s Palette is a wonderful ode to flower garden design that will help you to create stunning flower beds. In this book, you will get to know your own sense of style and how to create flower color palettes that speak to who you are. This book serves as a tool for the flower gardener but also as a sourcebook of unlimited inspiration.
Conclusion: Flower Gardening Books
There are many options for flower gardening guides available. However, these eight are my favorite recommendations. In my years as a flower gardener and farmer, I’ve found the most use and the most inspiration in the books I’ve listed here.
As a farming and gardening enthusiast, I have collected many wonderful books over the years. If you are interested in more book recommendations, you’ll find many collections at the Botanical Revival Bookshop. Not only will you find more gardening books, but you’ll find resources on permaculture, herbalism, homesteading, food sovereignty, kids’ books, and more.
What are your thoughts on these flower gardening books? Do you have your own favorites that you don’t see here? Please leave your thoughts in the comments, I would love to hear from you!
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