Garden Joy

Garden Joy is a beautiful celebration of flowers, the changing seasons and the quiet magic of growing something of your own, from beloved Australian florist and gardener Petrina Blooms. From her suburban Melbourne garden, home to more than 14,000 plants, Petrina invites readers into a world where flowers offer not only beauty, but comfort, connection and hope. Following the seasons from early spring tulips to winter daffodils, Garden Joy combines practical growing guides and seasonal bouquet recipes with advice on selecting, growing, cutting and arranging the best blooms throughout the year. The advice is accessible to beginners and expert gardeners alike, and relevant to a global audience.   Woven throughout are Petrina’s warm, funny and occasionally heartbreaking essays on what a garden can teach us about grief, joy, resilience and hope. With honesty and tenderness, she explores the ways tending to flowers can help us navigate life’s hardest moments.  Petrina celebrates the beauty of homegrown, locally sourced and sustainable flowers, embracing a growing global movement towards more thoughtful, seasonal and environmentally conscious floristry. Garden Joy is an invitation to slow down, reconnect with nature and discover the extraordinary in the ordinary. It will resonate with anyone who has found solace in a garden, longs to grow something beautiful or needs reminding that even in the hardest seasons, things bloom again.