Super Bloom

From Achillea to Zinnia, Super Bloom features 75 plant profiles of the most beautiful flowers and foliage to bring shape, colour and beauty to any garden. Leading plant specialist Jac Semmler revives the appeal of treasured, old-world beautiful flowers for the modern garden. This is a comprehensive gardening how-to for beginners and experts alike, including:
Care and growing notes, including notes on varieties
Natural parameters (such as location, climate and aspect)
Where to source your plants, with suppliers all over the world
Plant biology (such as how root systems work and the importance of light, transpiration and photosynthesis)
Soil ecology (with notes on the different types of soil, how you can test your own garden soil and how to improve various types for planting)
Must-have and nice-to-have tools
How to save your own seeds and organise your seed stash
Tips on harvesting, conditioning and arranging cut flowers Look out for the incredible array of Planting Partners for each plant, whether you want to plant a garden that flowers in succession, group your plants by height or colour, find flowers with similar growing conditions, or foliage friends to highlight blooms. An innovative, immersive photographic style by Sarah Pannell illustrates techniques such as planting seeds, caring for seedlings, transplanting flowers, propagating and dividing rhizomes, training plants as well as offering a breathtaking bee's eye view of the garden. Natural beauty nourishes something deep within us. Whether it's seeing a meadow of grasses or wildflowers, watching nasturtiums run rampant, marvelling at the smell of a particular rose, or watching the tulip heads wilt and drop, these are the moments that make us human, that connect us to the world and remind us that beauty is everywhere. Super Bloom is a modern gardening classic.

Hardcover book
528 pages
28cm x 22cm x 5cm
2.78kg
Published 25th October 2022 by Thames and Hudson Australia Pty Ltd