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The Picking Garden

Grow and gather cut flowers for homegrown arrangements all year round
By Jo Turner
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Grow stunning flowers in every season—no matter where you live. A delightful, practical gift for gardeners, flower lovers, and anyone who appreciates beauty. The Picking Garden is a beautifully illustrated guide to cultivating blooms year-round, from tiny balconies to spacious backyards. Learn when to sow, pick,... Read More
Format: Hardback
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Grow stunning flowers in every season—no matter where you live. A delightful, practical gift for gardeners, flower lovers, and anyone who appreciates beauty.

The Picking Garden is a beautifully illustrated guide to cultivating blooms year-round, from tiny balconies to spacious backyards. Learn when to sow, pick, and replant your flowers so your garden never stops blossoming.

Featuring over 55 flower profiles, this book covers everything from seeds and seedlings to bulbs. Discover how to grow floral favourites like foxgloves, hydrangeas, Japanese windflowers, cosmos, and more—plus how to mix-and-match them into gorgeous arrangements.

Practical, inspiring, and accessible for all skill levels, The Picking Garden includes:

  • Seasonal sowing and growing guidance
  • Advice on vase selection and arranging bouquets
  • Tips to make cut flowers last longer
  • A planting chart for quick reference
  • Colour inspiration and design ideas
  • Reflections on the symbolism and meaning of flowers

Whether you have a pot on a windowsill or a full garden, this book will help you create a blooming oasis to enjoy—and pick from—all through the year.

The Illustrated Garden Series

Gardens are an endless supply of bounty. Many of our everyday needs can be met with a garden. This series works with authors and illustrators to offer practical information in an original package on how to cultivate, grow, pick, treat, heal, observe, preserve, and learn from the garden. The series includes:

  • The Kitchen Garden (2022)
  • The Preserving Garden (2023)
  • The Medicinal Garden (2024)
  • The Picking Garden (2026)

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760762841

Publisher: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 June 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd

Illustration: 5 Illustrations, black and white; 130 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Rachel Russell

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 190.0mm

Height: 248.0mm

Weight: 830g

Pages: 184

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Home & Garden Jo Turner Non-Fiction

About the Author

Jo Turner was born with a passion for books and has had the great fortune to build a career doing what she loves: crafting knowledge and ideas into beautiful, accessible books for audiences around the world. She is the great granddaughter of a gardener from East Sussex, the granddaughter of a woman who grew and preserved fruit and vegetables to feed her large family, and the daughter of a passionate flower gardener and jam maker.

Rachel Russell is an Australian artist and illustrator whose work draws inspiration from the natural world and the poetry of everyday life. Guided by curiosity and a love for detail, she delights in watching gardens change with the seasons or wandering the streets of a new city, recording it all in her colourful sketchbook. Through close observation and lyrical precision, she transforms the ordinary into the magical, inviting moments of wonder and reflection.

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