From Seed to Bloom: A year of growing and designing with seasonal flowers by Milli Proust

Milli Proust is inspired by the way plants grow in the wild, and she loves working with what she grows, creating romantic and playful designs for weddings, events, brands and personal clients. All of her crops are all grown in rhythm with nature, and are completely chemical-free in a passionate effort to protect our surrounding wildlife. In January 2017, she made the move from London, where she was born and raised, to a deeply rural pocket of West Sussex. It may be only an hour back to the city by train, but it often feels so much further away than that. She fell in love with her pocket of countryside, deep in the woods, growing as much beauty as she could. In the few years of making this her home, she has learnt to see the seasons change, not just from winter to spring, from spring to summer, but from week to week, each and every day bringing new promise, change and subtle shift. When she is not tending to the crops or creating and installing floral work, she works as an actress for radio, stage, and television.

From the Publisher From the author: "Working with nature is full of circular, loving relationships that are bursting with reciprocity and nourishment; the more the Earth is loved, the more beauty and sustenance it provides. We growers are people, not machines, imperfect and fallible, and at one time, every human on Earth would have been a grower in some way. And so it goes that the landscape is, and always will be, the backdrop and backbone to all of our lives. In working with flowers, in practising, meditating, and creating with them, our connection with the world around us is strengthened. Within these pages are flowers, seeds and life in all its intimacy, and in writing this book, I urge you to support small-scale agriculture, to find and support your local growers – the people working in harmony with the Earth – to be encouraged by the slow flower movement, to enjoy it, be inspired by it, and perhaps to even add to it yourself. All you need to get started is a packet of seeds." EVERLASTING LOVE BOUQUET NARCISSUS LIBRARY A SPRING DANCE CENTERPIECE LAST HURRAH MARKET BOUQUET A FEASTING TABLE FOR FRIENDS WINTER WOODLAND BOUQUET