Picking Pleasure

Transform your garden into a floral paradise! 

Do you dream of a flower garden or balcony bursting with life and color? Does the scent of a fresh bouquet at home make you happy? With a cutting garden, you can bring that joy straight from your own garden. But where to start? How do you choose from all those varieties of annuals, biennials, and perennials, and how do you ensure your cutting garden blooms all year round? Angelo Dorny shares all the secrets in Plukplezier. A year of sowing, planting, and picking flowers to make your garden dream come true. From seed to plant, from creating your flower bed to caring for all those blooms, from the benefits of compost to overwintering bulbs, from pesky pests like slugs to a cutting garden full of butterflies and bees. In this most comprehensive guide to the cutting garden, you'll find answers to all your questions. Angelo teaches you how to create stunning bouquets, which vase is most suitable, and how to keep a bouquet looking fresh longer. And when summer with all its exuberance is over, you can dry a whole bunch of flowers to enjoy throughout the winter. Learn the tricks of the trade and become a pro at growing flowers in an ecological way.

Angelo Dorny (1990) is a writer, garden expert, and entrepreneur. He inspires hundreds of thousands of people through his social media and is the founder of the webshop www.angelo.be.

Specifications

• 380 pages
• Hardcover