Carolyn Dunster trained in floristry with Jane Packer and now works as a florist and planting designer, running her business, Simply Roses, from her home in north London. She has written for several magazines including House & Garden and Country Homes & Interiors. She exhibits regularly at garden shows and flower festivals in the UK, and recently co-designed a small cutting garden at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show behalf of Katie's Lymphoedema Fund, which won the People's Choice Award. She designs planting schemes for small urban plots and grows as many flowers as possible in her own city garden to use in her floristry work.
"This charming book, written by a garden designer and florist, is
filled with ideas on how to make the most of even the smallest
space. There is sound advice on choosing plants
and colour schemes, and ingenious projects
include a herb wall along a fence."
*Daily Mail*
"Urban Flowers is likely to become the city gardener's
bible. This is a book for every town or small-plot gardener, to
guide them through everything from soil type to plant choices,
design to preserving flowers."
*The Garden magazine*
"full of inspiring ideas"
*My Weekly magazine*
"Carolyn Dunster has clever ways to cultivate your city
patch...this dreamy book marries cottage garden traditions with
inventiveness... Inspirational."
*The Simple Things*
"Dunster is a mastermind in colourful garden
designs for small, urban spaces. This book guides you through the
art of what to grow, when to grow it and how to create local,
seasonal blooms and berries."
*Archant North London*
"A great, accessible start for new gardeners and
something for the experts too."
*Reclaim magazine*
"this book is ideal for anyone who has ever dreamed of nurturing a
garden but simply doesn’t have the space. The garden designer
Carolyn Dunster offers hundreds of ideas for how to bring life and
colour into even the most unprepossing of outdoor areas. Learn
which plants will thrive in an urban environment; find out how to
make the most effective use of space; experiment with colour; and
make your floral scheme last longer by drying or cutting
flowers."
*Town & Country magazine*
“…crammed with fresh new ideas [and] infinite ways of growing
flowers in the smallest of spaces, even if it’s on a balcony,
rooftop, windowsill or perhaps just a vertical
wall. Carolyn’s infectious enthusiasm for nurturing and
growing plants is constantly woven through the pages of this book
and can’t fail to inspire city dwellers to buy seeds and plants to
decorate their gardens with colour, form and scent. It’s a
reference guide to dip in and out of for years to come, that should
help all urban gardeners realise the horticultural potential of
their outside space.”
*retiremove.co.uk*
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