The Picking Garden

Flowers brighten rooms, lift spirits and connect us to nature. The Picking Garden shows how easy it is to bring that magic into everyday life - one seed, one season, one bloom at a time.

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

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)

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.

Jo Turner, illustrated by Rachel Russell
Published July 2026
Hardback
184 pages
190mm x 248cm
ISBN 9781760762841