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In Bloom

Growing, Harvesting, and Arranging Homegrown Flowers All Year Round
Clare Nolan
$32.99 USD
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Product Type: Paperback / softback

Description

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Enhance Your Home with Flowers In this beautifully designed book, brimming with inspirational photographs, Clare Nolan reveals her secrets for growing a bountiful harvest as well as styling spectacular displays that will fill your home with color and the gorgeous scent of the garden year-round. Clare takes the mystique out of the growing process—from choosing the plants to suit both your garden and home and laying out your cutting patch, to planning ahead so you get your perfect palette of color, texture and shape to play with 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 whole “grow your own” experience. Grow your own flower shop at the bottom of your garden! · Comprehensive guide to planning, planting, and maintaining a bountiful home flower garden · How to choose your plants, position your patch and grow luxurious flowers · Cultivation tips for annuals, biennials, bulbs,

Details

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Pages 272
Publish Date 2019-05-14
Series  
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

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About the Author

Clare Nolan has worked within the lifestyle magazine industry for nearly 15 years as an interiors stylist and writer. She is currently the Lifestyle Editor of YOU magazine (Mail on Sunday) with a readership of over 5 million. Clare's work has also appeared in the Saturday Telegraph Magazine, the Sunday Times Magazine, Style and House & Garden. She has worked on a freelance basis as a consultant, trend forecaster and stylist for interiors trade exhibitions as well as UK high street stores such as Marks & Spencer, John Lewis and Ikea

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