We love a good flo­ral design and were more than hap­py to obtain a copy of Susan McLeary’s lat­est book on flo­ral design, Flow­ers For All. If you don’t know Susan’s work, check it out on her love­ly and inspi­ra­tional Insta­gram feed @passionsue. You won’t be dis­ap­point­ed in what you find on her feed or in her book. I down­loaded a Kin­dle ver­sion for my Fire Tablet of her first book, The Art of Wear­able Flow­ers in 2021 when I need­ed to know how best to make a flo­ral neck­lace. Sue’s instruc­tions in that book were flaw­less and I suc­ceed­ed in meet­ing my clien­t’s request with fly­ing colors!

Sue McLeary

Sue McLeary from her book, “Flow­ers for All”

Who Would Like this Book?

This book is more per­son­al than her first. Sue talks about the impor­tance of hav­ing flow­ers in your own life (and we whole­heart­ed­ly agree with that notion). Flow­ers make peo­ple hap­py so why not get per­mis­sion to arrange flow­ers for your­self, your friends, clients, and more? She cov­ers the basics when it comes to tools and gives pho­to and text instruc­tions on how to string hyacinth flo­rets. Sue explains her view on using nat­ur­al sup­ports for flow­ers and enjoy­ing them at the moment. There is not a lot of detail or step-by-step on how to make a flo­ral design. This book is beau­ti­ful­ly pho­tographed and offers a pletho­ra of inspi­ra­tion for a flo­ral design­er who has some expe­ri­ence already knows the basics and is look­ing to expand their hori­zons and repertoire.

Flowers for all TOC

The Table of Con­tents for Flow­ers for All

Why we Like This Book

My favorite part of the book is the Flow­ers for All sec­tion where she show­cas­es beau­ti­ful yel­low for­syth­ia branch­es blan­ket­ing a wall of a room and an arch of bit­ter­sweet vines in anoth­er room. Lovely.

Bittersweet branch arch

Bit­ter­sweet Vine Branch Arch by Sue McLeary and her book Flow­ers for All

I don’t want to give too much away! My advice to all stu­dents when pur­chas­ing flower books for their own col­lec­tion is to try and check them out from your local library. But, if you want to own this book, you can order it from Amazon.com or Sue her­self! We met Sue at the 2021 Slow Flow­ers Sum­mit at Filoli. She was one of the guest speak­ers and we loved her demon­stra­tion on foam-free arch­es so much that that’s pret­ty much the only way we make our arch florals!

Well done, Sue! Keep up the beau­ti­ful work and inspi­ra­tion for all of us!

How to Order

Order online through Amazon.com from the but­ton below.