Enter artist and master gardener Frances Palmer’s world as she shares everything she knows about growing and arranging flowers in this glorious book. 

Palmer approaches her garden planning in waves, ensuring there are always beautiful booms for her to photograph in her vases. In "Life with Flowers", chapters for each these “waves" includes profiles on her favorite varieties--with flower-specific gardening how-to's and arranging techniques, as well as delicious flower-forward recipes and simple DIY projects. 

Part of the delight and richness of this book comes from the fact that Frances is both a gardener and an artist: We learn that she was inspired to grow bearded irises after an exhibition of Cedric Morris’s iris paintings at the Garden Museum in London; that when arranging her tulips she thinks of André Kertész's 1939 surreal photograph "Melancholic Tulip"; and that she never passes a tiger lily without imagining the chattering garden from "Alice in Wonderland" or smells her azalea bush without being transported to the English garden of "Rebecca". 

To read "Life with Flowers" is to be invited into both the garden and the creative mind of an insatiably curious, highly skilled, and wildly generous talent.

Hardcover, 288 pages