CITY SLICKER
Carolyn Dunster has clever ways to cultivate your city patch in Urban Flowers
Lush, romantic and with flowers used ‘in brushstrokes of colour’, this dreamy books marries cottage garden traditions with inventiveness: mirrors on outdoor walls; fairylights in shrubbery; hanging planters transformed into tiny daisy fields. Steps are brightened up with a staggered display of plants in pots – an ‘instant flexible garden design’ – and privacy comes in the shape of multi-stem birches that prevent passers-by looking in, but don’t block the light. There’s also a shed roof covered with houseleeks, and nooks and crannies planted with periwinkle, sweet woodruff and creeping thyme, as well as tips on drying and pressing flowers. Inspirational. (