Reading

Garden Library

Constance Spry, all incl Flower Decoration (florist for coronation of QE2 1953

Penny Snell

Julia Clements-Gift Book of Flower Arranging 1969

Gertrude Jekyll (w architect Edward Lutyens), her home: Munstead Wood - Flower Decoration in the House 1907

William Robinson -The English Flower Garden 1883(w Hekyll, creators of herbaceous border

Gerd Verschoor

Fionnuala Fallon, Irish Times, garden writer

Sarah Raven, The Cutting Garden (great on conditioning)

Sarah Richardson

Holly Chappel

Floret Farms

Brookfield Garden Club in-line “conditioning Flowers” 

Beatrix Jones Ferrand (Dumbarton Oaks)

Rosemary verey

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe color theorist

Michel Eugene Chevreul color theorist

Newton opticks 1704

Kassia St. Clair The Secret Lives of Color

Janet smith  Fundamentals of Colour

Johannesburg itten 1961 the Art of Color

Nori & Sandra Pope Color by Design

William Robinson 1883 The Wild Garden

Monty & Sarah Don- the jewel garden

Thomas Hobbes the jewel box garden

Anna Potter, has shop Swallows & Damsons

Gardenista

Margaret Fairbanks Marcus/ Period Floral Arrangement

Rachel Ruysch, Baroque painter

Jan van Huysum-baroque painter 

Debra Prinzing- Slow Flowers, one arrangement per week from her garden

William Hogarth- the Analysis of beauty, 1753

Lancelot Capability Brown- designed park at Chatsworth

Joan D Stamm, ikebana


Movie

A Little Chais- Alan Rickmam


Invasives- insure proper disposal, USDA list

Traveler’s joy

Himalayan black berries

English Ivy

Pokeweed


Conditioning

British Florist Association- online conditioning guide


Online- Jessica Stewart My Modern Met


To visit

Het Loo, Netherlands, Baroque

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Links

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The Flower Farmer by Lynn Byczynski. Great resource covering all aspects of growing cut flowers by the founder of Growing for Market. 

Floretflowers.com and Floret Farm’s Cut Flower Garden by Erin Benzakien. The book is divided by season and covers growing and design. The website sells seed and has a trove of additional information.

Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers: Provides resources, information, and events for flower growers.

Slow Flowers: Founded by writer Debra Prinzing, Slow Flowers promotes American grown flowers. Podcast, national directory, and events.

Johnny’s Selected Seeds: Good source for cut flower seeds and resources in their online Growers library.