Download or read book The Potpourri Gardener written by Theodore James and published by Howell Book House. This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in paperback, this comprehensive guide is the only complete book available on the cultivation of plants for the creation of potpourri. James tells how to grow over 100 perennials, annuals, bulbs, herbs, and shrubs that are specifically appropriate for use in potpourri. 75 color photographs.
Download or read book Potpourri Incense and Other Fragrant Concoctions written by Ann Tucker Fettner and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 1977 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the history and lore of perfumes and presents recipes for toilet waters, pomanders, sachets, and potpourris.
Download or read book Field Flower Vase written by Chelsea Fuss and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floral expert Chelsea Fuss shows you how to make beautiful, natural arrangements with foraged and seasonal greenery, branches, and flowers Based on her extraordinarily popular flower-arranging workshops, Chelsea Fuss’s first book combines an alluring sense of place with everything readers need to know to forage, gather, and arrange fresh and dried botanicals. Each arrangement is addictively easy to make, and the featured centerpieces, wreaths, garlands, and bouquets are designed to bring the perfect amount of scent, color, and atmosphere to a room. The book features 28 eco-friendly floral projects, all using natural materials in lieu of floral foam and wire. Each arrangement is accompanied by foraging tips that can be applied to different locales. Photographed in the author’s small village in Portugal, the book overflows with atmospheric images of flowers and foliage in the landscape to inspire readers to walk local trails (even if that just means the stalls of a city market) and gather ingredients in a pastime that is as much self-care and meditation as it is a practical pursuit.
Download or read book Potpourri written by and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Potpourri Gardener written by Theodore James, Jr. and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to grow, harvest & dry flowers for fragrance & color in your home all year round.
Download or read book THE POTPOURRI GARDENER PHOTOGRAPHY BY HARRY HARALAMBOU written by Theodore James and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Potpourri of Pansies written by Emelie Tolley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Victorian times, the pansy's pert face has charmed gardeners and gentlefolk alike. From tiny Johnny-jump-ups to velvety violas, these multihued blossoms have inspired artists, textile designers, and even cooks, and stationery, keepsakes, and embroidered linens have immortalized the flower that means "thoughts of you." Now Emelie Tolley and Chris Mead, gardening and herb experts extraordinaire, offer A Potpourri of Pansies, a beautifully illustrated tribute to their very favorite flower. Pansies are among the easiest flowers to cultivate, both indoors and out, and because they are simple to dry, they can be used in myriad decorative ways, such as fragrant potpourris or embellished candles. Chris and Emelie showcase the versatile pansy with recipes, gardening hints, simple bouquets, and trivia and lore. Pansy lovers will rejoice in this gorgeous celebration of a perennially popular flower.
Download or read book The Scented Garden written by Caroline J. Luley and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book you can make the most use of your garden. Even if you don't have a garden, you will love making these great crafting items. Included are some gorgeous potpourri recipes, the kind that will have your friends asking what smells so good. These recipes also give you some of the most lovely looking potpourri you can find anywhere including those expensive gift shops! There is also a complete section on perfume making so that you can use everyday herbs to make delicious scents without chemicals or additives. Non toxic and so fresh you will be shocked by their loveliness, you may want to give these perfumes as gifts in lovely bottles and even make a business out of it and sell these products at a premium. There is no doubt that people will be asking you what smells so good and you might just have to tell them how you did it. The Scented Garden brings the freshness and purity of nature right into your home with crafts that you will have a lot of fun making.
Download or read book In and Out of the Garden written by Sara Midda and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sara Midda's richly illustrated In and Out of the Garden has delighted readers and critics alike: "This is the most gentle of books, a peaceful pastime. The delicacy of Sara Midda's art is enchanting. Anyone who is a gardener, or who has worked with plants in nature, will respond to what she has put forth so exquisitely," wrote Joan Lee Faust, Garden Editor of The New York Times. Diana Vreeland praised it as "delightful and delicious," Time magazine as "Cause for revel," and Laura Ashley called it "pure inspiration." In scores and scores of delicate illustrations and tender reflections, the author recalls the English gardens her childhood and the gardens she tends now, to reveal surprises both dainty and daring. The colorings and imaginings make the fancy soar with pleasure, as she creates the most elegant and subtle of books to give and to have, a book to cherish as dearly as a volume of treasured poetry. Sara Midda's garden is sown with glorious images. Ruby-red radishes are the jewels of the underworld. Myriad colors fall upon warm green moss. Brown leaves drift with sweet scent. And "in the beeman's garden, a host of hives and a swarm of bees bring sticky honey for your teas." Vegetable gardens, herb gardens, flower gardens are illustrated. The pleasures of the orchard are celebrated. Recipes are shared for lotions and potions to cheer the heart and delight the senses." -- Publisher.
Download or read book Pot Pourri and Other Secrets from the Garden written by Lynette Ramsay Silver and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Crafty Gardener written by Becca Anderson and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grow your garden—and make candles, potpourri, tinctures, wind chimes, birdhouses and much more. Gardening grounds us in nature, connecting us to Mother Earth and all she provides—even if your garden is just a hanging basket of cherry tomatoes or a windowsill filled with herb pots. It can also bring out our creative side—and in this book, lifelong gardener and bestselling author Becca Anderson combines her love of crafting and of gardening to present a collection of inspired DIY ideas. Along with tips on growing flowers, herbs and veggies, there are dozens of how-tos in this delightful guide for making candles, potpourri, bath salts, essential oils, floral waters, tinctures, liquors, pickles, jams, and even fountains, birdhouses, and fairy doors. You’ll learn:Time-tested gardening secretsHow to garden in big and small spacesRecipes for home-grown vegetables and fruitsHow to preserve and fermentHow to make DIY garden decorations and fixturesAnderson’s own gardening stories that will inspire, motivate, and lift the spirit
Download or read book The Scented Garden written by Richard Bird and published by Stewart, Tabori, & Chang. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scent adds an extra dimension to the garden, bringing aromatic associations and memories, as well as pure pleasure, to the garden experience. Specially designed to help any gardener position plants perfectly for maximum enjoyment, The Scented Garden introduces 20 unique projects that make the most of a wide range of scented plants, from those which release their scent when the leaves are brushed against or crushed, to those which have a stronger scent in the early morning or in the evening.Wherever the garden or whatever its size, The Scented Garden offers ingenious suggestions: planting a fragrant border of cutting flowers, building a honeysuckle porch, growing a sweet-smelling window box display, and lining a woodland walk with perfumed flowers. Well-illustrated and dearly explained in step-by-step instructions, The Scented Garden can help all gardeners to surround themselves with heavenly fragrance.
Download or read book The Essential Earthman written by Henry Mitchell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most soul-satisfying gardening book in years." --New York Times (March 1982, reviewing the 1981 cloth edition from IU Press). "Genuinely a classic..." --Los Angeles Times (on the occasion of Houghton Mifflin's paperback edition, which came out in 1994). "Is there anyone alive with the slightest interest in gardening who doesn't know that Henry Mitchell is one of the funniest and most truthful garden columnists we've got?" --Allen Lacy "Mitchell is a joy to read. He has tried and failed, persevered and triumphed, and he has many sound recommendations for us fumblers and failures." --Celestine Sibley, in the Atlanta Constitution. "Henry Mitchell is one of America's most entertaining and enlightening garden writers.... 'Garden writer' fails, in truth, to describe this man. He gardens and he writes--the former, if we take him at his word, with lust and loathing, foolhardiness and finesse; the latter with gentle irony and consummate skill." --Pacific Horticulture "Mitchell mixes practical advice, encouragement, philosophic consolation and wit. He is the neighbor you wish you could talk to over the back fence." --House and Garden Henry Mitchell was to gardening what Izaak Walton was to fishing. The Essential Earthman is a collection of the best of his long-running column for the Washington Post. Although he offered invaluable tips for novice as well as seasoned gardeners, at the heart of his essays were piquant observations: on keeping records; the role of trees in gardens (they don't belong there); how a gardener should weather the winter; on shrubs, bulbs, and fragrant flowers--and about observation itself. Here's one example: Marigolds gain enormously in impact when used as sparingly as ultimatums. Henry Mitchell came to his subject with reverence, passion, humor, and a contagious enthusiasm tempered only by his sober knowledge of human frailty. The Essential Earthman is for all who love gardening--even those who only dream of doing it.
Download or read book The Country Diary Book of Flowers written by Carol Petelin and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Aromatherapy Garden written by Kathi Keville and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kathi guides you to all the joys of an aromatic garden with wonderful tips, fascinating facts, and sumptuous photos.” —Mandy Aftel, acclaimed natural perfumer and author of Essence and Alchemy and Fragrant The Aromatherapy Garden explains how fragrant plants can be as therapeutic as they are intoxicating, and how easy it is to add this captivating element to gardens large and small. It reveals the scents, secrets, and science behind fragrant plants, and how to optimize the full benefits of fragrance. Hone your powers of concentration with lemon verbena. Beat the blues with wintersweet. And use rose geranium to relieve anxiety and stress. Revealed here are the scents, secrets, and science behind plant aromatherapy, and how to optimize its full benefits. Detailed plant profiles will help you create a beautiful source of restorative aromas, oils, sachets, teas, and more. The nose knows—and with Keville’s expertise, now you too can create your own sanctuary of health and happiness
Download or read book Garden and the Gardeners Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gardeners Chronicle of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
