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Sarah Raven’s Pocket Christmas

Bringing the outside in for the festive season
By Sarah Raven
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Sarah Raven’s Pocket Christmas offers maximum-impact, minimum-fuss ways to bring the outside in this Christmas. Inside, you'll find Sarah Raven's tips for planning ahead and arrangements for any occasion, whether you're looking for instant party flowers or more extravagant displays. There's also an array of recipes... Read More
Format: Hardback
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Stunning floral arrangements, recipes and tips for making the most of your flowers and foliage in the festive season

Stunning floral arrangements, recipes and tips for making the most of your flowers and foliage in the festive season

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Sarah Raven’s Pocket Christmas offers maximum-impact, minimum-fuss ways to bring the outside in this Christmas.

Inside, you'll find Sarah Raven's tips for planning ahead and arrangements for any occasion, whether you're looking for instant party flowers or more extravagant displays. There's also an array of recipes for drinks, treats, canapés, and edible gifts to delight, as well as guidance on forced bulbs to grow and gift.

PLANNING AHEAD: including bakes and preserves, and forced bulbs

DECORATIONS: The Christmas Tree, wreaths and swags, and houseplants

CHRISTMAS PARTIES: instant and showy floral arrangements, canapés, drinks and snacks

Sarah Raven’s Pocket Christmas is the perfect companion for the festive season, showcasing expert ways to celebrate the garden this Christmastime.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781037213984

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 22 October 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 176

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About the Author

Since the publication of her first book The Cutting Garden Sarah has led the way over the last three decades in introducing a new kind of productive gardening which fuses intense colour, elegance and do-ability, bridging all kinds of gardening from dark rich dahlia glories to subtler smoky modern colours of poppies, roses, sweet peas, and all kinds of vegetable deliciousness. She is a teacher, broadcaster, has a popular gardening podcast Grow, Cook, Eat, Arrange with colleague Arthur Parkinson and runs a mail order plant nursery and online store sarahraven.com, (with 500,000 customers). She is the author of many books, most recently A Year Full of Flowers which was a Sunday Times bestseller.

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