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In Bloom
Growing, Harvesting, and Arranging Homegrown Flowers All Year Round- Regular price
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Learn to design and maintain a bountiful flower garden at home with this comprehensive guide on everything from planting to flower arranging.In this book, brimming with inspirational photographs, interior stylist Clare Nolan reveals her secrets for growing a colorful, fragrant garden and using it to create spectacular floral displays for the home all year-round. Clare takes the mystery out of the growing process, offering clear advice on choosing the right plants for you, laying out your cutting patch, and planning ahead so you get your perfect palette of color, texture and shape, all at the right time. An entire chapter on arranging will inspire you to create spectacular arrangements for your home without the need for complicated floristry techniques. Being able to step out of the back door and pick a single stem for beside the bed, pull together a posy for a friend or create a colorful centerpiece is an exciting and rewarding addition to the home gardening experience.This volume covers:How to choose your plants, position your patch and grow luxurious flowersCultivation tips for annuals, biennials, bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizomes, perennials, shrubs, trees, climbers, foliage and fillersWhen and how to harvest - and how to make your flowers last longerStyling guide for stunning arrangements that look like they came from a shopExpert advice from an experienced interiors stylist and lifestyle editor
Details
Details
| Pages | 272 |
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| Publish Date | 2019-05-14 |
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| Size | 7.5" x 9.75" x 0.0" |
| Author | Clare Nolan |
| Product Form | Paperback / softback |
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Publisher's Weekly
"...emphasizes gardening as a means to beautify and personalize the home." —Publishers Weekly
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Green Profit
The author takes the mystery out of the growing process and helps readers learn how to choose the right plants and flowers for both the garden and the home. —Green Profit
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tied posy, lay out all your pickings and your clean vase. Strip off any leaves that will fall below the waterline. Lay a few pieces of foliage across the palm of your hand. Add a focal flower, then a few filler flowers. Next — and here’s the pro trick — turn the bunch so stems start to spiral out at the bottom, a bit like the spokes on a wire whisk. Keep adding foliage and flowers, rotating the bunch with every third stem. Position flowers a little lower as you go to create a rounded shape. Be disruptive. To break the symmetry and “add a little quirk,” pull a few smaller flowers so they stick out a bit, and maybe a branch. Aim for imperfection. Once you’re happy, tie the bunch with a string where you’ve been holding it. (The higher the tie, the tighter the arrangement.) Trim stems at an angle, so they’re even and fit the vase. Then enjoy what money can’t buy. The Oklahoman/Orlando Sentinel Newspapers
This book is for anyone who is beyond the stiff spray of identical red roses, and who would rather echo the garden a bit more in their homes. Count me in. After I picked up Nolan’s book, I picked up the phone and called her at her home in England. As in her book, she kicked off the discussion with a compelling pep talk on why we should grow and harvest flowers at home. “When you buy flowers at the store, the flowers are all at the same stage,” she said. “With garden flowers, you can mix buds with open blossoms and replicate what is happening in nature.” And this is why I love what I do. I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT. “Mixing a bud with a full bloom is the signature of naturalistic style,” Nolan said. “Plus, store
