This guide helps you identify flowers, mainly sold by florists, and match them according to colour and season. They are classified into 4 categories: dominant flowers such as dalhia or peony, textured flowers such as astilbe or andromeda, movement flowers such as foxglove or garnishing flowers such as rose and carnation.
In addition, an index of botanical names and detachable labels allow you to make the flowers you choose your own and combine them to create your own personal plant composition.
Rose Distant drum
The magnificent photos, eloquent examples of the Putnams' talent, are reminiscent in their delicacy of the plates by Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), nicknamed the "Raphael of Flowers". All are subtly rendered against a white background in their moving simplicity.
In the appendix, the book also offers some advice on caring for flowers and their possible combinations.
Text: Brigitte Postel
Book Flower guide by colour
Darroch Putman and Michael Putman
Editions Phaïdon: €29.95
https://fr.phaidon.com/store/design/guide-des-fleurs-par-couleurs-9780714878867/
