Flower Power: Designing and Planting Gardens for Year-round Beauty

From renowned gardening and flower expert Jac Semmler, Flower Power is a practical, step-by-step, and beautiful guide to planning and designing your garden.

A book for any gardener who wants to successfully grow flowers, this abundantly illustrated volume is the ultimate guide to flower-planting design and composition. Flower Power breaks down the processes, techniques, and thinking in planting design and garden-making, including a how-to on categorizing and understanding plants; a detailed guide to designing your garden considering color, composition, texture, and layers; and how to achieve your garden design with easy techniques, photography, and the proper tools. Fun charts and layouts showing color palettes, flowering calendars, planting forms, density, and distribution are also featured.

Flower Power will take your gardening to the next level, using up-to-the-minute international thinking in design translated into an accessible and immersive reference for anyone who wants to try something new in their garden. Critically praised garden designer and flower expert Jac Semmler provides readers with the know-how to bring together a successful and thriving garden.

Illustrated in color throughout

Jac Semmler is foremost a plant lover. Known for her big laugh, Jac tends to Super Bloom―a creative plant practice that brings dynamic, living beauty and diversity to landscapes, places, and creative projects, exploring gardening as an immersive art form. Her first book, Super Bloom: A Field Guide to Flowers for Every Gardener, was published in 2023. Jac is a respected horticulturalist and recognized innovator in dynamic planting design. As a plant advocate, she shares garden dreams and schemes as a regular contributor, curator, and "gardener in residence" to institutions, festivals, radio, podcasts, and publications, including Wonderground.