Flower Book Recommendation: Bush Flowers

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Bush Flowers Book Review​

We love books that bring us to a new world and this one does — unless of course you live in Australia! Bush Flowers: Australian flowers and foliage for decoration and design was written by authors Cassandra Hamilton and Michael Pavlou. They do an amazing and comprehensive job highlighting the beauty and details of native Australian flowers, from the fantastic waxflower to the beautifully sculptural grevillea and the fabulously textural banksia.

Chapters on Australian Flowers​

The chapters include topics like sourcing, getting started, arranging, drying and a lovely plant library of focal flowers, textural flowers, foliage, sculptural elements and seed pods. We love all types of Australian native flowers, but especially blooms like waxflower!

While our favorite section is the Plant Library (Section 05), but we know that you’ll love the Arranging section. The authors encourage you to break the rules, but as with all art, it’s important to first know the rules of good design before you can bend them to your will.

Christmas Bush is one of our favorite flowers from Australia! It literally can last a month in a vase!


From the publisher:

Australian flowers are truly unique. Banksias and flannel flowers, wattle, and waratahs all offer their own magic of colour, shape and texture. All across this country there is botanical beauty right in front of us.

Native flora and foliage offer a beautiful alternative in the sustainability-challenged cut-flower industry. Our diverse landscape and climate produce incredible flowers that inspire our gardens and fuel our creativity. Here are over 50 plant profiles with notes on growing, cutting, conditioning, arranging and drying, with florists’ insights on what makes them so special.

Bush Flowers will give you everything you need to bring Australian native plants into your home, and to see the bush around you in all its beauty.

Who should get this book​

If you are in love with grevillea, waxflower, and eucalyptus, this is the book for you! I love the details on fabulous flowers like flannel flowers and paperbark. Each section on the type of flower goes over details like its Botanical Name, Common Name, Origin, Availability, Growing notes, Tips and Insight. For example, the insight on strawflowers pairing well with Banksia. Another great insight in this section is that Agonis is also called ‘After Dark’ which I love and that it dries well!

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