Sarah Raven Books

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.

Includes recipes that are suitable for best friends, children, uncles and mother-in-laws. This title features such seasonal recipes as Beetroot tart with horseradish cream, Sussex stewed steak, Sesame salmon with pea pesto, Parsnip and sweet potato chips, Rabbit pie, and Barbecued lamb kebabs with spiced aubergine sauce.

Using dramatic plants, sculptural shrubs and highly painted woven posts, fences and frames, this text aims to show how gardens can be transformed into places of enjoyment and adventure. The ideas are backed up with practical advice, photographs and planting plans.

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.

250 gorgeous, colourful, healthy recipes from award-winning food writer and qualified doctor Sarah Raven

A lavish hardback celebrating one of Britain's best-loved gardens.

This beautifully photographed guide celebrates the endless possibilities of the vegetable patch and shows that edible gardening can be both productive and stunning to behold. International gardening and cooking expert Sarah Raven shares her wealth of knowledge about how to have a bountiful—and beautiful—kitchen garden. With the belief that we should all grow more of what we eat, she imparts her experience on making the most of any outdoor space along with sage advice about the best things to grow and harvest easily and efficiently along with their culinary uses. The varieties highlighted are accessible, but Sarah also includes many flavorful heirlooms as well as rarities difficult to find in markets. Being connected to the food on our plate and to the landscape around us has never been more important, and everything Sarah does is strictly organic. She focuses on growing the freshest, healthiest, and tastiest produce without resorting to artificial inputs or chemicals. Although the book is primarily focused on edibles, Sarah includes flowers (some edible too) because they attract pollinators and beneficial insects while beautifying the vegetable patch. Solid, practical advice is mixed with inspirational ideas, and aspirational photos of Sarah’s own showstopping garden are sure to inspire any home gardener.