Flower Color Guide

by Taylor Putnam, Michael Putnam

The ultimate color-by-color flower reference guide - from New York's pre-eminent floral designers, Putnam and Putnam

Planning a wedding, a dinner, a birthday party, a romantic evening, holiday entertaining, or just arranging flowers for the pleasure of having them, more often than not your creative process begins with thinking about the color of the flowers that you want. To help you find what you are looking for, Flower Color Guide is the first reference book to organize flower types by color, with an emphasis on seasonality and creative color schemes - and the results are stunning in their sheer variety. What Pantone is to color, Flower Color Guide is to flowers.

Showcasing 400 flowers at their peak, with stunning photography taken by Putnam & Putnam in their Brooklyn studio, this guide includes an appendix featuring perforated pages, with tips on flower care, notes on how to prepare vessels and a list of suggested color schemes. A great gift to give, or to have for oneself, the book speaks to the most seasoned flower enthusiasts as well as those just beginning to explore the possibilities of arranging flowers.

Michael and Darroch Putnam have built a reputation for romantic, dramatic floral arrangements and installations using color as their guiding principle - here, they share their knowledge with readers worldwide: "This is the book we wished we had when we started doing flowers."

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Reference, Nature, Gardening, Coffee Table Books

484 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2018

Reviews

[Sarah Jo · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting and mostly useful guide. The tear-out cards bumped it up from 3 stars to 4. Otherwise, the lack of names is super frustrating, inhibiting you from searching out and actually finding the flower represented. I would pay triple for the same book with accurate flower variety names. Only a handful include their Latin identifiers.

[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am not in the industry. And nowadays when you pick up a bouquet from the market it is almost always mixed and prearranged. I really bought this book at a library book sale just to enjoy the photos and I did—they were gorgeous.

[Reed · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent reference book that takes a helpful Pantone-style color approach to classify flowers rather than alphabetically or by flower family. I had not seen previously seen this approach applied to the world of biology-- and it makes lots of sense.

There are a couple of easy wins that the authors could have included, and instead these are now missed opportunities:
1. I loved the first part of the appendix which gave about 10 color combinations to match. Why not include a picture of each of these color combinations instead of words alone?
2. Would have preferred to see some examples of matching flowers that work....as well as some common approaches that don't. "Most people try this combo....; however, it looks much better if you try it this way...."

[Ynwa · Rating 5 out of 5]

C'était mon livre du soir. Il y a plus de photographies que de textes. Je l'ai trouvé très reposant, agréable à regarder avec les fleurs triées par couleur.

Un peu plus d'information sur les plantes aurait été bienvenue mais je chipote hahahaha.

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Blue flowers:
Bell clematis (‘rooguchi’blue)
Cineraria (Pericollis x hybrida)
Muscari (Muscari botryoides)
Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)

Black flowers:
Bearded iris (Iris germanica) 'Black Knight'
Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata) 'Black Barlow'
Dahlia 'Karma Choc'
Scabiosa (Scabiosa atropurpurea)

[Dodi · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a beautifully photographed and assembled guide of flowers. The author relates his tips on flower arranging and notations with each flower make those suggestions clear. This is a resource for gardeners and artists, as well as florists.

[Kevin Alzate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid flower reference book, wish it included a slight blurb about each flower / a fun fact.
Dislike the empty space at the end of the book for note taking.
Also think the colors could’ve been better organized as some of them seem out of place.

[Kacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good encyclopedia for flower reference

[JV Austen · Rating 4 out of 5]

beautiful

[Tacy Stacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

My favorite reference guide when ordering florals for my clients weddings. I do wish it was a complete guide and included a few everyday florals as well, but still helpful, and I refer to it often.

[Sebastiaan Buts · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wat een prachtig boek! Verbluffend overzicht van kleur in bloemen. Een handige gids voor wie zelf boeketten wil leren samenstellen. Ik kijk er naar uit om mijn eerste boeket te maken.

[Div Manickam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow this book on colors and flowers is music 🎵🎶 to my ears n eyes ❤️

Loved learning about the different flowers from anemone to lily to ranunculus and zinnia

My happy place ☺️

[Addy Canzano · Rating 4 out of 5]

Met gift shop purchase