The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide
I am addicted to books about gardening, and yearn to stroll outside my home through wander through my beautiful flower gardens, rock garden plantings with bubbling water features. A garden where everything grows and blossoms on scheduled, the multitude of color coordinated flowers and textures overwhelm the senses.

Alas, hope springs eternal.

With The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide, author educator and gardener extraordinaire
Jenny Rose Carey takes us step-by-step through the imagining, planning, planting and maintenance of a beautiful and attainable flower garden. I read an advance reding copy courtesy of Net Galley and the wonderful Timber Press, which is a great resource for gardeners at every level.

It is very clear that Ms. Carey loves what she does. Her guide is based on the premise that anyone can design their own garden. In it, she helps gardeners identify what they want to grow and how to grow it. The book is filled with luscious and dreamy photographs, practical gardening tips, and a terrific discussion on garden design. A great book, even if you don’t have a green thumb.

Lovely book for gardeners or anyone that loves beautiful flowers. Whether you are new to gardening or a seasoned pro you will love to use this book to add new or different colors to your garden. She shows you which flowers go well with others and to add depth to your gardens. She helps you add plants that will continue to add beauty for years to come.

This is a wonderful read on flowers for gardeners, especially someone who is starting out. We're just starting our garden and we needed to learn about potentially what flowers would be appropriate for pollinators in our area that are natural here and this helped us understand a bit more about flowers we'd be planting and choosing - as well as how hardy or easy they might be or vice versa! Would recommend. Full review to come on my Goodreads page.

This is a great book for the beginning flower gardener and designer, but also for an experienced gardener hoping to change things up a bit. It goes over topics like color theory and infloresence in a very accessible way. The calendar and design tips are very helpful, as are the inclusion of pollinator friendly flowers.

This book is a feast for eyes as there's plenty of gorgeous photos of flowers and a very important guide for gardeners as it explains how to combine different flowers according to colours, texture, and season.
I loved it as it fascinating and informative, one of those book that makes you dream and project a perfect garden.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

Lots of great pictures of all types of flowers make this book stand out. Filled with flower gardening information.

The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide is a well written and beautifully curated book of garden design inspiration by Jenny Rose Carey. Due out 5th July 2022 from Timber Press, it's a comprehensive 364 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.

My paternal grandmother was my first, and most ardent, inspiration for a lifelong love of gardening. She was a flower gardener par excellence and just seemed to *know* everything about flower design and cultivation. I've struggled with my own garden design (we all know our gardens will never be "finished"), and this book gets a lot of things perfect. The vibe throughout is competently encouraging and upbuilding. The author's voice is always reassuring and professional, but never condescending or superior. She definitely knows the subject well. There's quite a lot of "showing" and very little "telling" in the book and the chapters are arranged more or less like a one-on-one masterclass with a good teacher. The flower list is comprehensive and something I really liked is that most plant entries also include multiple examples in color to show flower forms, shapes, sizes, and varieties.

The photography throughout is stunning and abundant. Photo captions list particular cultivars with botanical (Latin) and common names. The author has also included a fairly comprehensive links and resources list for further reading. There are numerous specialty retailers as well as lots of fun links for further reading. The index is cross referenced and comprehensive.

Five stars. This book would make a superlative selection for library acquisition, home gardeners, smallholders/truck farmers, gardening groups, allotment gardeners, and other lifestyle readers. This is a passionately written, eminently reasonable, usable guide for garden design using blooming plants as a focus.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

THE ULTIMATE FLOWER GARDENER’S GUIDE has so much information to treasure for readers’ interested in learning more about building flower gardens. The theory behind building a garden with complexity and interest permeates this book. I have only one complaint: there is a lengthy reference section with photos and names of plants but the growing zone is not included. I wish it was. Then, when I read the book I can consider whether the lovely plant might grow in my garden. Otherwise, the reference section is less than helpful. I received my copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Love, love, love, love! I read a ton of gardening books and I can be hard to please, but this was just a joy. It's packed with gorgeous photos and tons of information. Different sections give you all you need to know, from what flowers are best for different bloom times to how to prepare your site for flowers to profiles of all kinds of annuals, perennials and bulbs, plus loads more. This is really well named as it is an ultimate guide. Highly recommended.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

Expert gardener, Jenny Rose Carey, has assembled a wealth of knowledge about how to prepare and plant a garden full of beautiful flowers. Her shared expertise shows how to start and prepare one's gardening space, and then how to go about planting one's garden to get the effect one wants. Her knowledge is geared towards beginner and more experience home gardener alike, and any gardener would be lucky to own this book.

I really enjoyed the sections where she discussed how to have a blooming garden all year round and how to structure a garden to get different effects. Another very excellent tool is her compendium of plants, which colours they have, their growing seasons and best growing conditions, with both their botanical name, and also any general name(s). The more I read the book, the more I realised that I will have to add this to my section of gardening books. It was also nice to see her mention plants and flowers I already have in my garden and how I can add and improve on what I'm already doing.

This is a very practical and beautifully photographed guide for any gardener. My only regret is that the ebook edition was a little hard to read - the text and images appeared stretched.. This is most likely to do with pre-published formatting and I'm sure will be fixed.

Thank you to NetGalley and Timber Press for this free eARC in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.

I received a copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a beautiful book!

The book lists different flowers and has information on planning your garden, caring for it, and organizing all of your flowers to look good. The book lists flowers by their latin names (even though it lists the common names too) so it makes it a little hard to find certain flowers. The photos are beautiful! There's a lot of helpful information on growing healthy flowers.

The Ultimate Flower Gardener's Guide by Jenny Rose Carey is a nice gardening book on flowers. Ultimate not so much. I just finished reading and reviewing 'The Gardeners Palette' by Jo Thompson and that was basically ultimate so this one paled in comparison. But let's get to this book. This book does have beautiful photos and suggestions and talks about flowers a lot. but where I felt it was lacking was it just talked a lot about flowers but not a grounding foundation. The format was a bit choppy.

The book is divided into Your Garden of Flowers, The Flower Gardener's Calendar, The Flower Gardener's Palette, Laying the Groundwork for Your Flower Garden, Putting Your Flower Garden Together, and then the Epilogue and goes into some flowers alphabetically, briefly. Not anything ultimate. The guide does talk about zones and when the flower blooms and whether it's an annual or perennial but not really any tips or talking about pros or cons. I would say this book is a pretty book to look at for flowers but for any real practical advice in setting up a flower garden you'd have to dig further into research than what this book has to offer. When ultimate is used in a title that's put up an expectation and when it's someone like me who reads a lot of gardening books this is not a stand out at all. The author's love of flowers definitely does stand out in the book though.

I'd like to thank NetGalley, the publisher Timber Press for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Thank you, Timber Press, for the advance review copy.

I love everything about this book. The real pictures inside the book for different flowers got me. I am a bit sceptical about the cover now as the actual content has much more lot to offer and I wish the cover had one of the best pictures from the content.

That's a small issue of course. What matters the most is the information given for each of the flower described. And it is well done with crisp information and neat, at a glance presentation.

This guidebook is definitely the ultimate guide on flowers for your garden if you're planning to get some flowers of different colours to fill it soon.

A great one.