A Year Full of Pots: Container Flowers for All Seasons

Great book with good information! Great ideas for planting in flower pots!

I bought this for a dear friend’s birthday. She absolutely LOVED it. You can’t get any better than that!!!

I listen and learn from Sarah Raven’s podcast and was eager to read her newest book A Year Full of Pots. What a tremendous resource this book is for gardeners.Sarah specifically focuses on plants in pots throughout the year, month by month. She starts out by giving some rules of thumb for designing combinations of plants that work well together.Then month by month, Sarah shares what plants she puts in containers. January and February bring color into the new year. In March and transition from winter to spring and using bulbs. In April learning to do a bulb lasagna and how to do it. May is working with tender perennials. June, summer begins with making plant supports and fertilizer. July the garden flourishes. August looks at flowering plants. September when tender perennial climbers are at their peak performance. As autumn comes having perennials and those plants that will perform late into the season. In November and December there are still some hardy flowering plants to take center stage as wells as bulbs. Worked into each chapter are tasks that need to be done.I appreciated the helpful information and details about different varieties that Sarah uses in her garden pots, what she likes about the different plants. The book is chock full of pictures, gorgeous photos that you will want to look back on for design ideas for your own garden, in pots or perhaps worked into landscape.Even though I live in a very different area than Sarah, I can take the ideas and designs work them into our home garden. I loved this book and was on sensory overload looking at the spectacular photographs. So many beautiful photos, ideas and information to enjoy and learn from.I highly recommend A Year Full of Pots by Sarah Raven. I plan on purchasing a copy of this book when it is published on April 9, 2024. I want to use it as a reference guide filled with helpful information and design inspiration.I would like to thank Bloomsbury USA Publishers and NetGalley for an opportunity to read a complimentary copy of A Year Full of Pots by Sarah Raven. I was under no obligation to give a favorable review.

If there was ONE gardener that I could have a long luncheon with and then be able to visit their garden, it would be Sarah Raven. Her passion comes from doing, learning, and sharing. Most of what is shown in the book is available from her nursery - such a natural extension of her business.Although also having been a gardener and designer in cities and country for 30 years, Sarah's focus has been on flowers and this book has me convinced to add more, especially the giant deep red flowers of Dahlia 'Black Jack' to a pot for my front cottage garden.

Wonderful read and lots of good information. I would recommend to anyone who wishes to grow in pots.

I was a little disappointed as the book is mostly beautiful photos and less advice on gardening.

Great book for the garden enthusiast with ample pictures and plant descriptions.

I wanted to love this book. I bought it since Monty Don recommended it. I love growing in containers. This authors prose about the subject though is too much. I like a more clear and concise writing style for my gardening books.

I love all the photographs in this book! There are photos on almost every page, and they provide such great inspiration for my own garden. Who knew so many different plants could succeed in pots?!? The writing is also very good and she gives great advice about colors, combinations, and seasons. I highly recommend this book for any gardener, and especially someone who is looking for inspiration with container gardening.

This book is absolutely packed with information, inspiring ideas, advice and beautiful images. There is SO much to read it’s going to be a book you’ll go back to time and time again. Lots to take in so settle down with a very large mug of coffee and a comfy chair…..in the garden of course. Excellent value for money.

Muy interesante y didáctica

This is an excellent book for giving advice on what to grow in tubs. It’s a joy to read even if you are not interested in tub gardening

Reading this book is like having the author take you into her garden and share all her best secrets, from choosing your pot and where to put it, to what goes in it and why. She synthesises a huge amount of sophisticated information into brilliantly simple recipes, which make it easy for you to design pots to suit your own taste and space - layering up plants based on colour and form as if you were building a tasty salad. And the photography is sumptuous.