books,  media,  photography

The Best Book Party Ever

Okay, the only book party I’ve ever been to, but it was for the best book in my gardening life. Two of my fellow graduates from gardening school, Stina Pyrrö (text) and Hanna Marttinen (pictures) have made a beautiful and resourceful book, “Puutarhan vihreä vuosi“,  together that was just recently published. They arranged a launch party and were nice enough to invite me.

The pictures, the text and the layout work together in a beautiful way. It’s my hand in the picture touching a ‘White Triumphator’ tulip among Phalaris arundinacea ‘Picta’ in my garden.

I love the realness of this book; ordinary things become beautiful when they are genuinely captured.

No glorification allowed: I was a bit hesitant before Hanna shot this picture as it shows my greenhouse in a very genuine state. No major clean-up or restyling, the worn bar stool from IKEA with chipped paint and soil bags and plastic pots all over it. I’ve since lost the big Japanese maple to some fungal disease which is a shame.

Kävin viime viikolla elämäni ensimmäisissä kirjanjulkaisujuhlissa. ”Puutarhan vihreä vuosi” on ennennäkemättömän kaunis ja tyylikäs kirja joka on kahden puutarhakoulun aikaisen opiskelukaverini upean työn tulos. Stina Pyrrö (teksti) ja Hanna Marttinen (kuvat) ovat tehneet suurenmoista työtä.  

Viimeisessä kuvassa näkyy minun kasvihuone täysin arkisena: kulunut IKEAn baarituoli, ruukkuja ja muovipusseja melkoisen sekaisesti.

I'am a marketing and gardening professional and I plan to blog about garden photography (with an amateur’s perspective on it), gardens, plants, most things even vaguely garden related and garden trips around the world.

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