Jac Semmler

If Super Bloom is the ingredients list, Flower Power is the recipe book. This is a practical and beautiful guide on how to layout and plan your garden. A book like no other, this abundantly illustrated volume breaks down the processes, techniques and latest thinking in planting design and garden-making. It features: - A how-to on categorizing and understanding plants - A detailed guide to designing your garden, including such aspects as colour, composition, texture and layers - How to achieve your garden design, exploring easy techniques and required tools in sumptuous photography - Fun charts and layouts showing colour palettes, flowering calendars, planting forms, density and distribution Flower Power will take your gardening to the next level, using up-to-the-minute international thinking in design translated into an accessible and immersive reference for anyone who wants to try something new in their garden.

From Achillea to Zinnia, here are 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 in this comprehensive gardening how-to for beginners and experts alike, which covers: • Care and growing notes for over 70 flowers • Advice on how to start gardening • Soil, aspect and climate information • Planting, propagating, training and pruning • Saving seeds • Planting partners • Experiences from the garden • Must-have and nice-to-have tools • And so much more An innovative, immersive photographic style illustrates techniques such as planting seeds, caring for seedlings, transplanting flowers, propagating and dividing plants, pruning techniques as well as offering a breathtaking bee’s-eye view of the garden. Maximum plants, maximum colour, maximum beauty: Super Bloom is a love letter to flowers.