The global floral industry is thriving and rich and has always had a diverse market. There is much more to flowers than their fragrance and beauty. Learning everything related to flowers, ranging from how different flowers are grown to how many sub-flower families every flower type has, is fascinating and a pretty big task. There are over 365,000 flowering plant species in the world and every year, plenty of new species are discovered. If you are keen to be a florist or are interested in increasing your knowledge of flowers because of your unsettling curiosity, there are plenty of books that you should definitely check out. To help you satiate your curiosity about the world of flowers, here is an exclusively curated list of 40 books that you should definitely read:
1. Color Me Floral: Stunning Monochromatic Arrangements for Every Season
Written by Kiana Underwood, this book consists of her techniques for making mind-blowing monochromatic floral arrangements using vibrant colours and textures. It has unique arrangements for every occasion.
2. The Flower Workshop: Lessons in Arranging Blooms, Branches, Fruits, and Foraged
Materials
Written by Arielle Chezar and Julie Michaels and beautifully illustrated with colourful photographs, this book serves as a guide on how to make over 45 beautiful and diverse floral arrangements. It gives you the skills to personalize flower combinations at home.
3. Handpicked: Simple, Sustainable, and Seasonal Flower Arrangements
Handpicked is a beautiful guide to making amazing floral arrangements at home written by a Brooklyn based renowned florist named Ingrid Carozzi.
4. The Flower Recipe Book
Written by Alethea Harampolis and Jill Rizzo, this book is a flower arranging guide, consisting of a wide array of floral arrangements, ranging from wild and complex arrangements to simple and structured arrangements.
5. Cool Flowers: How to Grow and Enjoy Long-Blooming Hardy Annual Flowers Using Cool
Weather Techniques
Lavishly illustrated and filled with amazing techniques for growing flowers that thrive in cool conditions, this book has been written by Lisa Mason Ziegler. It lists 30 long-lasting blooms of the spring garden.
6. Branches & Blooms
Written by Alethea Harampolis and Jill Rizzo, this book gives over 100 step by step arrangements that you can make with leafy and flowering branches.
7. Living in the garden home: Connecting the Seasons with Containers, Crafts, and
Celebrations
This book, written by P. Allen Smith, encourages readers to expand their idea of living space and gives plenty of projects, decorating ideas, and tasks that enliven your outdoor as well as indoor living space.
8. Vintage Roses: Beautiful varieties for home and garden
In this book, written by Jane Eastoe and Georgianna Lane, the subject is enduring and classic flowers. It has a variety of roses, ranging from the original old roses to the ones that have been grown over the last two decades.
9. Understanding Orchids: An Uncomplicated Guide to Growing the World’s Most Exotic
Plants
Understanding Orchids has been written by William Cullina. It is a guide that offers immense knowledge of orchids and plenty of techniques for growing orchids properly.
10. The Artful Ribbon: Beauties in Bloom
This book, written by Candace Kling, is a guide on how to craft ribbon flowers. It consists of amazing examples of classic ribbon work.
11. Buying and Arranging Cut Flowers – The Essential A-Z Guide
Written by Judith Blacklock, this book offers complete knowledge of the most famous
flowers that are used to make a variety of floral arrangements.
12. Peony: The Best Varieties for Your Garden
Peony has been written by David C. Michener and Carol A. Adelman. It shares the complete
history of the peony plant, explores all of its types, and serves as a guide to growing 194 of
its types.
13. Growing Beautiful Food: A Gardener’s Guide to Cultivating Extraordinary Vegetables and
Fruit
Growing Beautiful Food, written by Matthew Benson, is a beautifully illustrated guide to growing 50 amazing crops. It takes us through the journey of growing crops.
14. In Bloom: Creating and Living with Flowers
Written by Ngoc Minh Ngo, this book profiles amazing floral arrangements and interior flower designing ideas, including arrangements made from foddered greenery and paper flowers.
15. Flower Arranging: For Home, Weddings, and Gifts
This book, written by Mark Welford and Stephen Wicks, offers the step-by-step techniques
and amazing pictures for creating over 70 floral arrangements for all occasions.
16. Vertical Gardening: Grow Up, Not Out, for More Vegetables and Flowers in Much Less
Space
Written by Derek Fell, Vertical Gardening consists of 100 coloured pictures of his own vertical gardening techniques and displays beautiful shrubs, vegetables, and annuals.
17. Wedding Flowers
Wedding Flowers, written by Paula Pryke and Chris Tubbs, is a complete guide on how to choose perfect wedding flowers. It also offers plenty of wedding floral arrangement ideas.
18. The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower’s Handbook for Small-scale Organic Farming
The Market Gardener, written by Jean-Martin Fortier and Marie Bilodeau, offers la Grelinette’s horticultural methods and unconventional flower-growing techniques.
19. My Rock-Garden
Written by Reginald Farrer, this book shares his work and experiences related to rock
gardening and highlights the results that he got.
20. Specialty Cut Flowers: The Production of Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Woody Plants for Fresh and Dried Cut Flowers
This book has been written by Allan M. Armitage and Judy M. Laushman. It is an amazing book for those who love to grow flowers in order to create varied yet beautiful floral
arrangements.
21. Foraged Flora: A Year of Gathering and Arranging Wild Plants and Flowers
Foraged Flora, written by Louesa Roebuck and Sarah Lonsdale, is a beautifully illustrated take on making flower displays using foddered plants and flowers.
22. The art of flora forager
Written by Bridget Beth Collins, this book consists of the best of her floral arrangements made of botanic materials and describes her unique process.
23. Bold and Brilliant Garden
Bold and Brilliant Garden has been written by Sarah Raven. It offers a simple new approach to planting and planning.
24. Cacti and Succulents: An Illustrated guide to the plants and their cultivation
This lavishly illustrated book, written by Graham Charles and consisting of over 250 species,
is a guide to everything related cacti and other succulents.
25. The House Plant Encyclopedia
Written by Ingrid Jantra and Ursula Kruger, this book covers plenty of topics on container gardening and offers simple tips and house plantation techniques.
26. Art Flowers: Contemporary Floral Designs & Installations
Written by Olivier Dupon, this book makes you visit the world of contemporary floral design and features the work of 38 talented people from 14 countries.
27. The Metamorphosis of flowers
This book, written by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou, captures the lives of flowers in over 100 coloured pictures.
28. The complete gardener
The Complete Gardener, written by Monty Don, shares his useful techniques for growing plants, vegetables, and flowers while catering to the environment’s needs.
29. Martha Stewart’s Gardening, month by month
This book, written by Martha Stewart, teaches readers about developing and maintaining an abundant yet beautiful garden.
30. A Floral Affair: Quilts and Accessories for Romantics
Written by Jennifer Rounds and Catherine Comyns, this book encompasses stunning floral quilt arrangements like flower storm and cherry blossom.
31. Grow your own cut flowers
This book, written by Sarah Raven, is the perfect guide to growing your own cut flowers.
32. Veranda The Romance of Flowers
Veranda, the Romance of Flowers, written by Clinton Smith, offers a wide array of stunning display of the most beautiful flowers.
33. Floristry Now
Floristry now, authored by Paula Pryke, is a wonderful book wherein she shares her design secrets. You can have a look at her inspiring designs that have bold colours and intricate structures.
34. Vintage Wedding Flowers
Written by Vic Brotherson, this book provides her ideas for everything related to wedding floral design, ranging from bouquets to corsages.
35. The reason for flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
The Reason for flowers, written by Stephen Buchmann, is an elaborative display of the botany, history, ecology, and meaning of flowers.
36. Living Art: Style Your Home with Flowers
Living Art, written by a renowned florist named OIivier Giugni, provides beautiful portraits of his own floral creations in a wide array of private places and recipes for some of his
signature floral displays.
37. Florist Crop Production and Marketing
Written by K. Post, this book teaches how to produce and market florist cut flowers, bulbs, and potted plants developed in the greenhouse.
38. Houseplants and Indoor Gardening
Julie Bawden Davis has written this book. It profiles 90 of the most famous houseplants and includes plenty of projects, including three-tier plant stand.
39. The New American Herbal
Written by Stephen Orr, this book has taken the study of herbs to a whole new level. It features plenty of recipes and plants that are used in homoeopathy and cooking.
40. Flowers for the table: Arrangements and Bouquets for All Seasons
Consisting of beautiful seasonal floral displays, this book has been written by Ariella Chezar and Elise Cannon. It is a complete guide to making a beautiful showpiece for any occasion or event.