A year of gardens, food, flowers, scent and simple pleasures, captured in one seriously beautiful book.

Flamingo Estate Pleasure Principles is the kind of book you buy because it looks incredible on your coffee table, then find yourself actually reading, cooking from and coming back to throughout the year.

Created by Flamingo Estate founder Richard Christiansen, this beautifully illustrated book follows the rhythm of nature month by month. Part gardening guide, part cookbook, part art book and part love letter to the natural world, it brings the unmistakable Flamingo Estate universe to the page: abundant gardens, ripe tomatoes, fragrant flowers, beautiful food and the belief that pleasure is something worth paying attention to.

Inside, you’ll find planting and harvesting guides, seasonal recipes, botanical stories, herbal remedies, scent explorations, lunar rituals and ideas for bringing more of the outside world into everyday life. Grow intoxicating jasmine. Infuse honey with honeysuckle. Make Lavender Dream Spray. Invite bees and butterflies into your garden. Celebrate tomato season. Take a bath with yuzu. Cook with what is ripe and notice what is blooming.

And you absolutely don’t need to be a gardener to love it.

Filled with hundreds of photos and original artwork, Pleasure Principles is as much visual inspiration as it is a practical guide. Open it anywhere and there is something to discover, make, grow, cook or simply look at.

At its heart, this is a book about paying attention. To the seasons. To what we eat. To what we grow. To what smells good, tastes good and makes everyday life feel a little richer.

A book to read, display, cook from and give, and one you’ll want to keep for years.

The book is written in English.