Books

We have been very lucky to be able to collaborate with Lucy who has kindly autographed some copies of her new book for us. 

These autographed copies are exclusive in New Zealand to Puriri Lane. 

If you are wanting to secure a copy, please do not wait as once sold we will need to wait for the reprint and will not have stock until Feb/March 2022

This is the most stunning book I have seen for some time with every page I turned ( I have seen a pre release)  I gasped at the beauty of what Lucy creates and this book will be taking centre stage on my coffee table the minute it arrives and it is already inspiring me to create some exciting new projects!

In The Flower Hunter, Lucy Hunter takes us on an inspirational journey through a year in her garden and artist’s studio set among the mountains of North Wales. 

Lucy's evocative, gently humorous words accompany her glorious photographs and exquisite floral arrangements, as she encourages the reader to marvel at the intricate cycles of the natural world, develop their own innate creativity, and to look for beauty in the everyday. 

Her garden provides the raw materials for Lucy's floral artistry - breathtaking naturalistic arrangements with all the painterly beauty and flourish of a Dutch still life.

Simple projects accompany Lucy's text, from drying garden flowers for an autumnal wreath to making your own journals and natural dyes to assembling lavish arrangements that showcase the voluptuous beauty of garden roses. Lucy believes that we all have a creative voice buried deep within. The Flower Hunter will encourage you to find your own creativity and help it to blossom.

Lucy Hunter has a Fine Art BA (Hons) degree and over 20 years' experience working as an award-winning landscape designer, floral artist, and self-taught photographer. Passionate about her garden and the natural landscape, Lucy is constantly exploring ways to soften the boundaries between inside and out, capturing transitory shifts in nature and the seasons. Lucy knows what plants work together, the soil conditions they need to thrive and understands how composition, form, texture and scale work to create a standout garden.

Lucy holds workshops across the world on floral design, composing the perfect image, and finding your creative voice and can be found on Instagram @lucytheflowerhunter. She lives in North Wales, UK with her husband, teenager, and two dogs.

Format Hardback | 208 pages | 350 Colour photographs

Dimensions 220 x 280mm

Publication date 20 Oct 2021

Frances is a potter known for her handmade functional ceramics. Her pieces have been carried by Barneys New York, Bergdorf Goodman, Neue Galerie, Takashimaya, and the Philip Johnson Glass House, and featured in T: The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Elle Decor, Martha Stewart Living, The World of Interiors, House & Garden, British House & Garden, and Veranda, among other publications. She lives and works in Weston, Connecticut.

Prepare be wowed...this book is stunning! Also see the beautiful Dahlia jigsaw puzzles which Frances has done which are  available here

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR Life in the Studio by Frances Palmer 

“Frances Palmer is as generous as she is talented, an incredible role model for me and so many other creative people. I’ve been waiting for this book ever since I discovered Frances’s work, and it has exceeded all my expectations. The depth of the subject matter, the heartfelt essays, the beautiful photography, and the wisdom that Frances shares are sure to inspire and change lives.”
~ Erin Benzakein, New York Times bestselling author of Floret Farm’s A Year in Flowers

“This is a glorious and uplifting book. Frances has an overspilling talent for making the world a more generous place through ceramics, gardens, and food. I loved it.”
~ Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes

“I have always loved the craft of Frances Palmer. The pottery she creates is practical and useful, quirky and original, and now, in Life in the Studio, we can see the many ways her work comes full circle: The flowers she grows look amazing in her distinctive vases and pots, as does the food she makes to serve on the plates she fashions.”
 ~ Martha Stewart

“Frances Palmer’s work represents the highest quality in American craftsmanship.”
~ Aerin Lauder | Estee Lauder Companies

“I need two copies of this beautiful book: one to sit proudly on my bookshelves, and one to follow me to my kitchen and garden, where it will soon get covered in fingerprints, dirt, and spots of water. It will be much used and loved.”

Format Hardback | 272 pages

Dimensions 203 x 254mm

Grow the flower garden of your dreams

Autographed copies are exclusive in New Zealand to Puriri Lane - Limited copies are available

From Erin Benzakein, owner of internationally renowned Floret Flower Farm, Cut Flower Garden is equal parts instruction and inspiration-a book overflowing with lush photography of magnificent flowers and breathtaking arrangements organised by season. 

This beautiful guide to growing, harvesting and arranging gorgeous blooms year-round gives you vital tools to nurture a stunning flower garden and use your blossoms to create show stopping arrangements. With irresistible photos of Erin's flower farm that showcase exquisite blooms, tips for growing in a variety of spaces and climates as well as step-by-step instructions for lavish garlands, airy centrepieces and romantic floral decor for every season, Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden informs and entices gardeners of all skill levels.  This book is a feast for every flower lover’s eyes and soul.

From the first page to the last, you’ll find easy-to-follow steps for planting, cultivating, and harvesting more than 175 varieties of flowers including cottage garden favourites, new hybrids, and heirloom varieties that are central to today’s seasonally focused floral designs.

Be sure to have a look at Erin's other books that we have available - A Year In Flowers and Discovering Dahlias 

If you do not already follow Erin on Instagram you are missing a treat - you can see her feed here @Floretflower

Format Hardback | 308 pages

Dimensions  190mm x 260mm x 31mm 

A Guide To Growing And Arranging Magnificent Blooms 

We have limited autographed copies which are exclusive in New Zealand to Puriri Lane, so don't miss out it you are wanting a copy of this fabulous book as our next delivery will take some time to get here due to Covid shipping delays.

PLUS A FREE FLORET BOOKMARK

By Erin Benzakein with Julie Jorgensen & Julie Chai | Photographs Chris Benzakein

A stunning guide to growing, harvesting, and arranging gorgeous dahlia blooms from star flower farmer and New York Times bestselling author Erin Benzakein, founder of Floret Flower Farm.

In this inspiration-packed guide, celebrated farmer-florist Erin Benzakein reveals all the secrets you’ll need for cultivating your own gorgeous dahlias. These cutting garden favourites are some of the most beloved flowers for arranging and come in a dazzling range of colours, sizes, and forms, offering enough variety for virtually every garden space and style. 

Full of expert wisdom and overflowing with hundreds of breathtaking images, Discovering Dahlias is an essential resource and must-have book for anyone who loves flowers.

In these pages, readers will discover:

• Expert advice for planting, harvesting, and arranging garden-fresh dahlias
• A simple-to-follow overview of the dahlia classification system
• An A–Z guide with photos and descriptions of more than 350 varieties
• Step-by-step how-to's for designing show-stopping dahlia bouquets that elevate any occasion

World recognised author: Erin Benzakein's gorgeous flowers are celebrated throughout the world. She is the star of Growing Floret, a documentary series premiering on Magnolia Network. Her book Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers was a New York Times bestseller and her first book, Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden, won the American Horticultural Society Book Award.

Filled with Wisdom: Overflowing with hundreds of lush photographs and invaluable advice, DISCOVERING DAHLIAS is an essential resource for gardeners and a must-have for anyone who loves flowers, including flower lovers, avid and novice gardeners, floral designers, florists, small farmers, stylists, and designers.

Beautiful to gift: This book is a beautiful present and a thoughtful gift for nature lovers, flower enthusiasts, flower farmers and gardeners. The colourful, flower-forward package pairs perfectly with plants, gifts and garden-wares from Puriri Lane.

You can find Erin's other books - Cut Flower Garden here and A Year In Flowers here

Format Hardback | 224 pages

Dimensions 191mm x 259mm x 22mm  

FREE BONUS MATERIALS

AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY WITH YOUR PURCHASE OF DISCOVERING DAHLIAS - We will email you a link on how to claim your bonus materials when you purchase  this beautiful book.

Designing Gorgeous Arrangements for Every Season

Exclusive in New Zealand to Puriri Lane, we have limited numbers of autographed copies available

By Erin Benzakein, With Jill Jorgensen and Julie Chai

Photographs by Chris Benzakein

In this lush volume, world-renowned flower farmer and master floral designer Erin Benzakein presents all the secrets to arranging garden-fresh bouquets.

This is the definitive and most authoritative book ever published on the glories of English gardening-historically and horticulturally, a tour de force.

An unprecedented in-depth look at the English garden by one of Britain's foremost garden writers and authorities, this stunning book showcases the enduring appeal of the English garden whose verdant lawns and borders of colourful plants are the inspiration for garden lovers worldwide.

Kathryn Bradley-Hole - the longtime garden columnist for Country Life - takes a fresh look at more than seventy gardens from across England and distills the essence of what makes the English garden style so sought after.

Seasonal photographs capture the gardens - some grand, some personal, some celebrated, some rarely photographed - at their finest moments, accompanied by sparkling, insightful text.

Featuring photographs from the unparalleled archives of Country Life, the full story of the English garden is here, from medieval monastery gardens to the Victorians and the Arts and Crafts movement to the twenty-first century.

Designs by many of the horticultural world's greats are amply featured, including Gertrude Jekyll, Capability Brown, Piet Oudolf, and Arne Maynard, as well as gardens famous the world over - Sissinghurst, Hidcote, and Great Dixter - alongside new and less-well-known ones, many open to the public.

Format Hardback | 492 pages

Dimensions | 279mm x 279mm x 40.64mm

Author | Kathryn Bradley- Hole

THE DAHLIA - She's got something special. She's an eccentric diva, but also a mathematical miracle. The dahlia is a flower that catches the eye. She has thousands of faces, as many shapes, in countless colours and eccentric shapes. And she gives everything she has for months! The dahlia is back again and with the rise of the small-scale farmer florists, who grow flowers all over the world using traditional methods and who share their beauty on social media, the flower has gained the cachet it deserves.

Quietly, thousands of new species have been added in recent years. Small pompoms, colossal dinner plates, fuzzy cacti and subdued stars. This book shows them in their full glory, highlighting all facets - from history to sustainable cultivation, from breeding to passion, illustrated with colourful, loving and sensational photos!

Linda van der Slot and Marlies Weijers are the owners of the FAM Flower Farm, an internationally known Dutch plant nursery where dahlia bulbs grow.  Katja Staring is a journalist, publicist and nature-lover, and on her Instagram page @dailygreenspiration, Katja posts about sustainable gardening.

The ideal gift for the Dahlia flower that has seen a huge rise in popularity, illustrated with beautiful colour photographs. The ultimate book for every flower lover.  By making this book, Katja wants to share her passion and show how versatile and special dahlias really are.  Marlies Weijers and Linda van der Slot are the owners of the FAM Flower Farm, an internationally known Dutch plant nursery where dahlia tubers are grown. Mariles says everyone is capable of getting dahlias to flower, and what they love the most is spreading the love for flowers with hashtag #spreadtheloveforflowers

200 colour images

Format Hardback | 224 pages

Dimensions 218 x 270 x 25.4mm 

Launched | October 2020

Invitations, Flowers, Decor, Table Settings & Cakes For A Memorable Celebration

A simply stunning book filled with beautiful ideas to create the perfect day! Whether intimate or grand in scale, every couple wants to create a memorable wedding that feels personal and completely unique to them.

The enchanting weddings featured in this beautiful book showcase imaginative ideas for a wide range of celebrations, from a cosy affair on a rustic ranch to a vibrant seaside celebration to a sophisticated dinner in a city mansion.

Proprietors, wedding planners, florists, and chefs offer their insights on everything from distinctive invitations and stunning floral designs to creative cakes and inviting table settings, culminating in the ultimate go-to resource for weddings.

The perfect go to guide for Florists and Wedding Planners to be able to share with their clients who are looking for ideas to create their own bespoke day.

About The Author

Established in 1954, Relais & Châteaux is an association of the world’s finest hoteliers, chefs, and restaurateurs that sets the standard for excellence in hospitality, with a select 580 members worldwide. Daniel Hostettler, President and Group Managing Director of Ocean House Management, is the president of Relais & Châteaux North America, headquartered in New York. Jill Simpson is a lifestyle writer and editor. She has co authored books by some of the best-known experts in the decorating and lifestyle fields, including Alexa Hampton and Aerin Lauder.

Launched 28 September 2021

Format Hardback | 240 pages

Dimensions 229 x 279 x 27.43mm 

Forget everything you thought you knew about dried flowers!

If the thought of dried flower arrangements is conjuring up images of stuffy decor that hasn’t seen the light of day in decades think again. Preserved floral arrangements are cool again, and not only are they beautiful, they’ll also last infinitely longer than fresh flowers.

This gorgeous book offers a new approach to flower arranging with dried botanicals, exploring ways to preserve flowers’ beauty forever through drying and pressing, and then presents a catalogue of 30 flowers that are interesting for colour, texture and sculptural appeal in arrangements.

15 step-by-step projects then give you creative ideas for displaying dried flowers including bouquets, wreaths, wall hangings, wall art, flower crowns and buttonholes for weddings, terrariums, candles and more.

These exquisite floral creations will give a bohemian and poetic touch to your interior decor and everlasting beauty to your home.

Author Morgane Illes is a passionate florist, who trained with Parisian florists and specialises in flowers for luxury events. After a few years in the decoration and design sector, Morgane founded her business Atelier Prairies with the desire to exercise her creativity and her know-how. Atelier Prairies’ floral designs for events and weddings are inspired primarily by nature: wild, romantic and bohemian. Her work has been featured in Marie Claire Maison, Glamour, and Prescription Lab.

This is the only book currently available to offer a modern approach to flower arranging with dried flowers. Dried flowers are a hot trend in  both weddings and interiors.  This book is beautifully styled, superbly photographed

This book would go well with our Flower & Herb Drying Rack which you can see here or our Flower & Herb Dryer 

Format Paperback | 144 pages

Dimensions 148mm x 210mm x 17.78mm

Publication date May 2020

This inspirational book from the Kew Gardens' rose expert is the perfect guide to choosing and growing these majestic and versatile flowers, and will be a copy that you will refer to frequently.

Instantly recognisable, fragrant and evocative, roses are the quintessential garden flowers. From low-growing ground-cover roses to long-stemmed Hybrid Tea roses, multi-petalled English roses, wild roses, small shrubs for containers, climbers and ramblers, in a range of forms, colours and scents, there is a rose for every garden situation.

Combining botanical illustrations and practical advice, The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Roses is the definitive introduction to growing seventy-eight beautiful roses, with full growing instructions and details on feeding, propagation and training.

Twelve garden projects, from growing from seed to preserving rose petals, will bring the wonderful world of roses to life for you.

We have another book in this series for Growing Bulbs which you can find here

Format Hardback | 144 pages

Dimensions 160 x 210mm

For everyone who loves flowers and wants to fill their home with colour and scent all year round. A practical and inspirational collector’s magazine that provides expert advice on planning, planting and growing year-round flowers for the garden, cutting garden or vase. Includes step-by-step guides to create simple bouquets as well as crafts, recipes and more.  You will find many of the plants that we grow  here at Puriri Lane in this publication and will find it very helpful with planning your garden

Height 29.5cm x 23cm Wide

Another great publication if you are starting out with flowers is Petal Power by New Zealand author Julia Atkinson-Dunn

The Flower Yard - Growing Flamboyant Flowers In Containers - Voted by The Times as one of the Best Gardening Books of the Year 2021

'The Flower Yard is simply gorgeous. Inspirational, sumptuous and packed with refreshingly down-to-earth advice. I love this book.' Nigel Slater

'The Kew-trained king of the small-space garden.' Guardian

Arthur Parkinson's town garden is like a path of pots, a tiny, exposed stage on bricks. Despite its small size, a flower-filled jungle in Venetian tones is grown here each year, in defiance of urbanisation. The plants act like drapes, closing gently as their growth engulfs the front door, from either side of the path, to the buzz of precious bees. Arthur's style shows that anything is possible even with a small space.  If you do not follow Arthur on Instagram, you can find him here

This is gardening done entirely in pots, yet on a grand scale that will inspire anyone who wants their doorstep or patio to be a glamorous and lively canvas that nurtures them visually and mentally. From jewel scatterings of crocus, flocks of parrot tulips and scented sweet peas to galaxies of single dahlias, towering giraffes of amaryllises grown inside for winter and endless vases of cut blooms through the seasons.

Arthur provides ideas for seasonal specific displays and also introduces flower types – tulips, sweet peas, poppies and dahlias – and tells you how to get the best out of these plants when they are planted in pots. Alongside all of this are accounts of his garden and his collection of bantams. He also provides ideas for picking the flowers that you have grown in pots and displaying them beautifully.

The beautiful photographs have also been taken by Arthur.

Format 

 Hardback | 208 pages

Dimensions 194mm x 248mm x 24mm 

The Modern Guide to Dried flowers from Growing to Styling

Learn how to make stylish dried floral designs that will last longer than freshly cut bouquets.

Do you adore having flowers around the house but they always seem to wilt and fall to pieces as soon as you place them in water? No longer! Join the trend of DIY drying and create stunning bouquets that will outlast fresh cuts while still adding that soft, romantic floral touch.

Expert florist Carolyn Dunster breathes new life into the age-old art of growing, drying, and displaying blooms in ways that will bring a chic, natural vibe to any room. Whether you are looking for elegant DIY bridal arrangements or trying to add a little bohemian flair to a room's decor, there are dried designs that will complement every aesthetic and occasion.

Written for a new, younger audience that is just discovering the art of drying flowers and from a popular British botanical stylist with a penchant for urban gardening, this book is a modern spin on a classic craft. For those who are concerned with environmental impact, dried flowers are also gaining popularity as a more sustainable approach to floristry.

Dried flowers are perfect for:
DIY bridal bouquets and table arrangements
Stylish home decor
Sprucing up your place of business in an affordable, low maintenance way

This book is an ideal purchase for anyone wanting to get started with the art of growing and drying flowers. Learn how to grow your own stems and the best combinations of colour and texture to create floral sculptures that breathe new life into any space in any season.

Format Hardback | 176 pages

Dimensions  | 172mm x 234mm x 18mm

 A comprehensive and highly practical study of the art of growing flowers, Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening presents expert tips on growing both annuals and biennials (including native and heirloom species) alongside hundreds of lush photographs.

This gorgeously illustrated book by Matt Mattus is based on decades of first-hand experience in his own garden and greenhouse made popular on his blog Growing with Plants. Every variety or species presented is one that he has personally trialed and grown. Mattus sets you up for success by providing everything you need to know about starting seeds, soil, sowing, hardening off, to transplanting, and growing on. Then, in the following chapters, you'll find tips for growing over 100 different annuals from seed and many summer bulbs, vines like wisteria and even blooming shrubs like lilacs. Every flower includes detailed information based on his hands-on experience, going beyond the information typically available on the seed packet or a nursery tag.
 
Learn details and cultural facts that will help you grow better flowers while introducing you to many more. You’ll find tips for topics like how to grow challenging annual poppies and biennials from seed and forcing flowers for winter blooms. Just a small selection of the flowers covered: heirloom and exhibition chrysanthemums, larkspurs and annual poppies, delphiniums, peonies, lilacs and wisteria. Bulbs include spring and summer bulbs such as anemone, ranunculus, tulips, lilies, gladiolus, and cut flower dahlias, while winter indoor bulbs cover every aspect of forcing bulbs indoors like narcissus, amaryllis, South African bulbs--and even how to force Lily of the Valley if you are lucky enough to be somewhere where you can grow it.

In short, there is nothing ordinary about this book—it is unlike any other cut flower book you will find.

Format Hardback | 240 pages

Dimensions 203 x 254 x 20.32mm 

This book is a must for anyone who loves flowers! Jane Packer Flowers is one of the world's most influential floristry companies, with a distinctively elegant yet refreshingly modern look.

The highly successful Jane Packer flower schools across the globe make the company's floral expertise and design creativity available to all those who are lucky enough to attend. For those who can't, Jane Packer's Flower Course covers exactly the same ground as the flower school's highly regarded four-week Career Course, including Foundation Floristry and the Foundation Bridal. The emphasis is on clarity and simplicity, so glorious photographs of finished arrangements are accompanied by step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions. The book is divided into three different sections.

Flowers to Give teaches the techniques necessary for a variety of irresistible floral gifts as well as bouquets arranged in baskets, bags and boxes.

Flowers for the Home covers arrangements of all shapes and sizes, while the third section, Flowers for Celebrations, provides all the know-how for party flowers, festive wreaths and table arrangements and last, but not least, beautiful wedding flowers.

Jane Packer's Flower Course distils floral expertise and style into one essential volume that imparts all the secrets of creating beautiful floral designs. It's a must for anyone who loves flowers.

FORMAT

Hardback | 160 Pages

Dimensions | 216mm x 254mm x 20.32mm

A gorgeously photographed new take on flower arranging using local and foraged plants and flowers to create beautiful arrangements, with ideas and inspiration for the whole year, from the co-founder of Remodelista and notable florist Louesa Roebuck.

Design editor and writer Sarah Lonsdale is also a co-founder of Remodelista and grew up in England.

Roadside fennel, flowering fruit trees, garden roses, tiny violets; ingredients both common and unusual, humble and showy, Foraged Flora is a new vision for flowers and arranging. It encourages you to train your eye to the beauty that surrounds you, attune your senses to the seasonality and locality of flowers and plants, and to embrace the beauty in each stage of life, from first bud to withering seedpod.

Organized by month, each chapter in this visually arresting and inspiring book focuses on large and small arrangements created from the flowers and plants available during that time period and in that place, all foraged or gleaned nearby. The authors reflect on surprising and beautiful pairings, the importance of scale, the scarcity or abundance of raw materials, and the environmental factors that contribute to that availability.

Whether picking a small tendril of fragrant jasmine, collecting oversized branches of flowering quince, or making a garland of bay laurel, Foraged Flora is an invitation to seek out the beauty of the natural world.

Format Hardback | 272 pages | 200 photos

Dimensions 224 x 305 x 30mm