The Country Diary Book of Flowers
Title | The Country Diary Book of Flowers PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Petelin |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2015-03-17 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1466892331 |
One of the most appealing, as well as one of the easiest, ways of bringing a breath of summer in to the home is to use dried and pressed flowers to make an almost endless variety of attractive arrangements and designs. Pot pourri, made with colorful, fragrant plants and carefully selected herbs and spices, recreate evocative scents to remind us of Nature's fragrance. Carol Petelin, author of the successful The Creative Guide to Dried Flowers, has drawn on her wealth of experience to provide the ultimate guide to drying and using flowers, plants, and herbs in a myriad of creative ways. First, she describes plants that can be most successfully grown, even by those with limited garden space, and explains how to best harvest and dry them. The next section covers the art of dried flower arranging. There is advice on working with different combinations of color and form to create arrangements in containers, bouquets, posies, garlands, and swags. She tells how to gather and press flowers and herbs and offers a variety of imaginative projects for them. The final section is devoted to pot pourri. The author includes recipes for deliciously fragrant mixtures and describes how pot pourri, scented flowers, and spices can be used to make many delightfully fragranced items. There is a list of sources for herbs and essential oils. Lavishly illustrated throughout with Simon McBride's color photographs and decorated with some of Edith Holden's own drawings from The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady and The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady, The Country Diary Book of Flowers will inspire all those who wish to practice the art of dried flower arranging and to make unusual and attractive gifts for their homes and friends.
Wild Flowers
Title | Wild Flowers PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Hollis |
Publisher | Penguin Press HC |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1995-11 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 9781854714015 |
The Edwardian Lady
Title | The Edwardian Lady PDF eBook |
Author | Ina Taylor |
Publisher | Michael Joseph |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Illustrators |
ISBN | 9780863503733 |
IN 1905 AND 1906 EDITH HOLDEN WROTE THE BOOKS THAT WERE LATER PUBLISHED AS THE COUNTRY DIARY OF AN EDWARDIAN LADY AND THE NATURE NOTES OF AN EDWARDIAN LADY. HER WORK HAS CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION OF THE READING PUBLIC ALL OVER THE WORLD. INA TAYLOR HAS WRITTEN A FUTHER CHAPTER FOR THIS NEW EDITION, ON EDITH'S NEWLY DISCOVERED NATURE NOTES OF AN EDWARDIAN LADY. 247X191MM, 228PP INTEGRATED COLOUR THROUGHOUT.7000X80PX$15.95.ROYALTY 15%(KM/JS 6.7.89). CANT QUOTE UNTIL JULIA PROVIDES SAMPLE BOOKS FOR OVERSEAS COS.
Quick Bibliography Series
Title | Quick Bibliography Series PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 868 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN |
Wildflowers
Title | Wildflowers PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Kopolow |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Wild flowers |
ISBN |
The Country Diary Book of Flowers
Title | The Country Diary Book of Flowers PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Petelin |
Publisher | Michael Joseph |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1991-07 |
Genre | Flowers |
ISBN | 9780863503078 |
Written by the same author as The Creative Guide to Dried Flowers this book gives instructions for the drying of flowers and for their arrangement into posies and formal arrangments. It includes methods for the making of gifts from pressed flowers, which have been popular since Victorian times.
The Complete Book of Flowers
Title | The Complete Book of Flowers PDF eBook |
Author | Denise Diamond |
Publisher | North Atlantic Books |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 9781556430794 |
Everyone who loves flowers will revel inThe Complete Book of Flowers. Veteran horticulturalist Denise Diamond's magnificent compendium describes hundreds of creative ways to use flowers grown in home gardens or gathered in the countryside. This new updated edition includes 16 pages of color photographs; recipes which use flowers for taste and beauty; planting, growing, arranging, and drying advice; a rich lore of easy-to-understand botanical information; and lovely home decorating ideas.