{"product_id":"life-with-flowers-frances-palmer-9781648291395","title":"Life with Flowers: Inspiration and Lessons from the Garden","description":"In this follow-up \u003ci\u003eLife in the Studio\u003c\/i\u003e, potter, gardener, and photographer Frances Palmer celebrates the flowers she most loves to grow and arrange. Frances approaches her garden planning in waves, ensuring there are always beautiful booms for her to photograph in her vases. In \u003ci\u003eLife with Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e, chapters for each these \"waves\" includes profiles on her favorite varieties--with flower-specific gardening how-to and arranging techniques hard-won over decades of growing and photographing her flowers--as well as delicious flower-forward recipes and simple DIY projects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Part of the delight and richness of this book comes from the fact that Frances is at once a gardener and an artist: We learn that she was inspired to grow bearded irises after an exhibition of Cedric Morris's iris paintings at the Garden Museum in London; that when arranging her tulips she thinks of Andr? Kert?sz 1939 surreal photograph \u003ci\u003eMelancholic Tulip\u003c\/i\u003e; and that she never passes a tiger lily without imagining the chattering garden from \u003ci\u003eAlice in Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e or smells her azalea bush without being transported to the English garden of \u003ci\u003eRebecca.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To read \u003ci\u003eLife with Flowers \u003c\/i\u003eis to be invited into both the garden and the creative mind of an insatiably curious, highly skilled, and wildly generous talent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frances Palmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1648291392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781648291395\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Artisan Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Frances Palmer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46526677942527,"sku":"9781648291395","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a8f7ae5b-5845-4a45-83b7-a891f8e93a81.jpg?v=1737556854","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/life-with-flowers-frances-palmer-9781648291395","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}