Since cities were first settled urban dwellers have created gardens on their doorsteps cultivating beauty and gaining delight from their efforts however small the landscape. Urban Flowers explores the many ways in you can bring colour and interest to a small city garden whatever its location and whatever your taste. Garden designer Carolyn Dunster demonstrates hundreds of ways to make your outdoor space bloom. By using her colour-themed planting recipes her charming projects and palette of reliable urban plants you too can turn the least promising corner into a thriving habitat for plants and wildlife. Find out how to: evaluate you city space and be clever with design; use plants and materials to reflect your style; follow easy practical projects and experiment with colour; choose plants suitable for you own urban location; prolong the growing season by drying or cutting flowers and saving seed for next year. --Back cover. Creating colour and interest in a small urban garden by growing a range of flowers and other decorative plants brings with it many rewards. Carolyn Dunster shows you what to grow and how to use your own blooms leaves and berries in a range of indoor displays and hand-tied bouquets. Locally-grown flowers in season is a significant and welcome trend in floristry and just as eating a tasteless strawberry in December pricks our consciences so too does purchasing a bouquet of tulips in September however stunning they may be to look at. The most local seasonal flowers which are the most satisfying to give and to display are the ones you have grown yourself. Carolyn Dunster shows you how to do this in the smallest of spaces.