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Sarah Raven

    Grow Your Own Cut Flowers
    The Cutting Garden
    The Bold & Brilliant Garden
    Sarah Raven's Food for Friends and Family
    Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook
    A Year Full of Flowers
    • 2024

      Master the art of growing flowers in pots all year round with inspiration from stunning 4-color images and expert advice from Sarah Raven, the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Year Full of Flowers ("a must-read"-Country Living). Accessible and charming, growing flowers in pots is a smart and satisfying way to enhance any space, from large, elaborate gardens to small city apartments. Get the pots right and your garden will take on a cheerful energy of its own. They are the bubbles in the champagne; the cherries on the cake; the final enhancement of what makes a garden beautiful. And with pots, there is one iron rule: more is more. Discover practical design tips that will enhance your pots. Use ingenious tricks when combining flower colors such as choosing a BRIDE (the star of the show), a BRIDESMAID (similar to the bride but smaller and less conspicuous), and a GATECRASHER (the color contrast, which brings the whole thing to life). Learn all about the types of forms and plant structures-Thriller, Filler, Pillar and Spiller-and how to put them to best use. And even consider simple concepts with newfound importance, like mounting flower pots onto a wall or elevating them to table so you see more of them, for instant impact.

      A Year Full of Pots
    • 2023

      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.

      A Year in the Edible Garden: A Month-By-Month Guide to Growing and Harvesting Vegetables, Herbs, and Edible Flowers
    • 2023

      A Year Full of Veg is a month-by-month gardening guide to growing the best seasonal veg, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Year Full of Flowers. With her wealth of experience, Sarah Raven shares the most reliable and bountiful varieties to grow, her tried-and-tested favourite crops, and unusual vegetables, herbs and salads that you can't buy in shops. As well as planting inspiration, Sarah reveals expert tips and techniques for growing and harvesting flavourful crops from January through to December, all based on easy, efficient and productive techniques that ensure you'll always have something fresh to use in the kitchen. No matter how much outdoor space you have, you'll be inspired to grow at least a little of what you eat. ___________________ 'This book, it's a revelation. I can't stop reading it. Sarah writes so well and there is hardly a paragraph where you don't learn something' Prue Leith

      A Year Full of Veg
    • 2021

      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.

      A Year Full of Flowers
    • 2019

      Sarah Raven's Wild Flowers

      • 512 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      In a new, practical format - the stunning book celebrating British wild flowers by award-winning garden writer Sarah Raven.Inspired by childhood excursions with her botanist father, Sarah Raven has travelled the length and breadth of the British Isles to find 500 of our most breathtakingly beautiful wild flowers. This lavishly illustrated book is divided by habitat, covering woods, downs and dales, lanes and hedgerows, meadows, coast, marshes and streams, moors and mountains, and wasteland. Sarah introduces a wide range of plants, telling you their names and something about them. Discover pulsatillas, fritillaries, bluebells, wild garlic, harebells, forget-me-nots, foxgloves, wood spurge, silverweed,purple cranesbill, deadly nightshade, St John's wort, comfrey, orchids,wood sorrel, snowdrops and more.There are glorious landscape photographs by Jonathan Buckley throughout, and one of his stunning plant portraits accompanies each of Sarah's authoritative, captivating species descriptions. Informative and lovely, Sarah Raven's Wild Flowers is a botanical marvel.

      Sarah Raven's Wild Flowers
    • 2016

      Good Good Food

      • 376 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      4.0(30)Add rating

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

      Good Good Food
    • 2014
    • 2014
    • 2013

      The Cutting Garden

      • 168 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      4.2(24)Add rating

      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!

      The Cutting Garden
    • 2010

      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.

      Sarah Raven's Food for Friends and Family