FROM SEED TO BLOOM: A YEAR OF GROWING AND DESIGNING WITH SEASONAL FLOWERS
by Milli Proust
Quadrille Q Publishing, £20 ISBN I 978-1787137349
Exquisitely photographed by Éva Németh, this book about growing flowers for cutting and arranging is floral heaven for the Instagram age.
Reviewer Georgie Newbery is a flower farmer, florist and author.
The layout and content of this beautiful book reflects the author’s enormously popular social media content: from the Hansel and Gretel cottage to the dream greenhouse, from the exquisite light in all the photographs, to the grid layout images on the how-to pages, these dreamy images are recognisable, and therefore intuitively useful, to a highly visually literate readership.
The practicalities of plot layout, tool kit, and general notes on growing and floristry are dealt with quickly at the beginning of the book, after which Proust takes you through a year divided into eight mini seasons. Each section starts with a kind of meditative journal entry in which she considers the mood, the light, the dew or the sunshine, before she moves on to jobs to remember and seasonal
