Book Recommendation: Life in Bloom: Grow, Gather & Arrange Seasonal Flowers

I just watched a few great online flower class­es by Graeme Cor­bett of Bloom and Burn flow­ers and was then delight­ed to find out he has a book that was just pub­lished in 2026! I just ordered it and don’t have it yet, but love these selec­tions that are pre­viewed. Once we have the book and have had a chance to read it over, I will post more into this review!

The book is titled Life in Bloom: Grow, Gath­er & Arrange Sea­son­al Flowers. 

His flo­ral stu­dio  is locat­ed in Kent, Eng­land where he also grows a cut­ting gar­den. He believes in sus­tain­able flo­rals and tech­niques using chick­en wire and pin frogs for his mechan­ics. He used to work at the flower shop Jam­Jar Flow­ers in Lon­don and still likes to be inspired by their work in their Jam­Jar Edit shop fea­tur­ing one-of-a-kind press flo­ral pieces of art.

This book already reminds me of anoth­er book we have in our library called A Tree in the House from a florist based in Aus­tralia who also works in sea­son­al blooms and real­ly makes love­ly organ­ic cre­ations from flow­ers on her farm.

Here is the syn­op­sis from Amazon:

“Fill your life with flow­ers and dis­cov­er the art of nat­ur­al, sea­son­al arrang­ing with cel­e­brat­ed florist Graeme Cor­bett of @bloomandburn. 

Graeme Cor­bett of Bloom & Burn isn’t your usu­al florist. Work­ing from his stu­dio in Kent, he uses local­ly grown flow­ers to cre­ate wild, loose arrange­ments with a mod­ern feel. In Life in Bloom, he teach­es you every­thing you need to know about grow­ing and arrang­ing flow­ers at home – includ­ing which rules to fol­low, and which ones to break – in a bid to find your own style.

Invit­ing you into his stu­dio and gar­den, Graeme takes you through the sea­sons by way of his favourite flow­ers. Dis­cov­er nar­cis­si and ranun­cu­lus in spring; peonies and pop­pies in sum­mer; dahlias and phlox in autumn; and dried hon­esty and forced blos­som in win­ter. For each flower, Graeme gives advice on grow­ing, choos­ing vari­eties, sourc­ing, and con­di­tion­ing before teach­ing stun­ning arrange­ments. Play with colour, form and tex­ture, and gain the con­fi­dence to go bigger.

You’ll learn how to:

• Cre­ate stun­ning arrange­ments using bowls, vas­es, and moss bases. 
• Build sea­son­al bou­quets and show­stop­ping cen­tre­pieces for tables and events. 
• Exper­i­ment with colour, tex­ture, and shape to find your own flo­ral style. 
• Apply sim­ple, sus­tain­able tech­niques that bring pro­fes­sion­al pol­ish to your work. 
• Devel­op the con­fi­dence to design freely, whether with gar­den stems or mar­ket flowers. ”