The Flower Yard | Arthur Parkinson

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