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Planting A Paradise - A Year Of Pots & Pollinators by Arthur Parkinson.

This is the new book by our favourite, Arthur Parkinson. If, like me, you have a small garden that is largely based in pots, this wonderful new book picks up from The Flower Yard, and teaches you how to expand upon your planting so that your garden as a whole becomes more sustainable, has more interest year round, and is a wonderful curation of plantings.

As Arthur says, so that it is all 'a tumble, a success, a death and at times a marvellous riot'.

Selected for The Times Best Gardening Books of the Year 2023
 
Every garden, large or small, in a town or in the country, even one formed completely by pots, can be a living dance of lavish colours, glorious scents and pollen-rich flowers alive to the sound of bird song and the buzz of bees. 
 
In Planting a Paradise, Arthur Parkinson, bestselling author of The Flower Yard, focuses on what to grow through the seasons with an array of planting ideas and recommended varieties to inspire the experienced and novice gardener alike.
 
From his newly found love of muscari, narcissi and seeding grasses, to circuses of dahlias, luscious herbs, figs and crab apples, the result is not only a stunning living harvest but also an oasis for wildlife at a time when we need this style of gardening more than ever. 
 

Praise for The Flower Yard: 

'Simply gorgeous' - Nigel Slater

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

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 through the seasons.

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