Download or read book Glorious Shade written by Jenny Rose Carey and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A practical guide to maintaining a shade garden with a useful calendar of seasonal tasks, plant directory and inspiring design ideas.” —Gardens Illustrated Shade is one of the most common garden concerns homeowner’s have, but with the right plant knowledge, you can learn to embrace shade as an opportunity instead of an obstacle. In Glorious Shade, Jenny Rose Carey celebrates the benefits of shade and shows you how to make the most of it. This information-rich, hardworking guide is packed with everything you need to successfully garden in the shadiest corners of a yard. You'll learn how to determine what type of shade you have and how to choose the right plants for the space. The book also shares design and maintenance tips that are key to growing a successful shade garden. Stunning color photographs offer design inspiration and reveal the beauty of shade-loving plants.
Download or read book The Ultimate Flower Gardener s Guide written by Jenny Rose Carey and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Flower Gardener's Guide gives home gardeners the confidence they need to create the flower-filled garden of their dreams. Jenny Rose Carey proposes a holistic approach to flower gardening with a refreshing twist. Instead of concentrating primarily on color, it brings flower shape and texture to the fore, helping homeowners make plant choices that come together in an aesthetically pleasing way. The featured plants include both perennials and annuals, and all have been chosen for their ease of care, attractiveness to pollinators, and environmental friendliness. Carey also shares information on planning for year-round color and design strategies for a range of spaces. The Ultimate Flower Gardener's Guide is a complete road map to a successful and satisfying flower-focused garden.
Download or read book The Ultimate Flower written by Miguel Serrano and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrator becomes friends with Jason, falls in love with Papan, the sister of Moctezuma, and enters a fantasy world that combines past and present, New World and Old
Download or read book Flowers Art Bouquets written by Sixtine Dubly and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be it a single delicate bud in a simple clear vase or an explosion of colorful blossoms, a brilliant bouquet accents an atmosphere and brightens the mood like nothing else. The beauty of flowers has inspired artists, designers, poets, and myriad other creators for centuries: the Dutch masters of the 1600s and impressionist painters from Manet to Van Gogh, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret, even the inimitable Andy Warhol. Flowers: Art & Bouquets showcases a glorious profusion of floral images and interpretations across a spectrum of artistic media and time periods. Design writer Sixtine Dubly chronicles the evolution of floral design in this remarkable compendium, which also features stunning work by more than forty contemporary floral artists in London, Paris, and New York, from minimalist to elaborate. This treasury of gorgeous imagery blooms in resplendent color before the reader’s eyes.
Download or read book The Flower Alphabet Book written by Jerry Pallotta and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 1989-02-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roses are red, Violets are blue... And they're only two of the flowers in this book of bright colors and delightful information. Young readers will be fascinated to find out what flower can be used to make a doll, which flower flavors tea, and which flower farmers feed to chickens. Author Jerry Pallotta and illustrator Leslie Evans have collaborated to produce a stunning bouquet of words and pictures about the world of flowers–one of nature's most beautiful gifts.
Download or read book Flowers written by Gail Saunders-Smith and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple text and photographs depict the parts of flowers and their pollination.
Download or read book The Ultimate Flower Book written by Jorja Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Color Me Floral written by Kiana Underwood and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the secrets to designing showstopping monochromatic arrangements in this spectacular guide from floral artist Kiana Underwood. Underwood shares her techniques for creating dazzling single-color displays using inspired ingredients, dramatic textures, and vibrant colors. Organized by season, the book includes how-tos for 40 arrangements— including a lush green display for spring, an astonishing black bouquet for summer, a striking magenta design for fall, and an unexpected, oh-so-pretty pink arrangement for winter. Featuring hundreds of eye-catching images and easy-to-follow tips throughout—such as suggestions for substituting flowers and options for both the beginner and advanced designer—this book is as useful as it is gorgeous. The ultimate resource, Color Me Floral has an extraordinary arrangement to enhance every occasion.
Download or read book The Flower Workshop written by Ariella Chezar and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a celebrated floral designer and lavishly illustrated with full-color photography, this book provides step-by-step instructions for more than 45 stunning floral projects from simple to spectacular and equips you with the skills to customize arrangements at home. Whether hosting a party, helping out with a friend's wedding, or wishing to incorporate the beauty of flowers into everyday life, The Flower Workshop allows you to create dazzling arrangements that go beyond merely pretty and into realms of the dramatic, the unexpected, and sometimes even the magical. Known for her hands-on flower workshops at FlowerSchool New York, Ariella Chezar walks you through the nuts and bolts of creating a variety of small flourishes, tonal arrangements, branch arrangements, handheld bouquets, wreaths, garlands, grand gestures, and more—all accompanied by detailed photography. Chezar offers advice and philosophy on everything from texture and color to foliage and containers, providing an overall approach to living and working with flowers, with an eye toward fresh, local, wild, seasonally influenced floral design. For every occasion, from relaxed and simple to lavish and monumental, The Flower Workshop celebrates the special moments in your life with glorious, fragrant floral arrangements and enhances your surroundings with abundant beauty.
Download or read book Flower Color Guide written by Darroch Putnam and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate color-by-color flower reference guide - from New York's pre-eminent floral designers, Putnam and Putnam Planning a wedding, a dinner, a birthday party, a romantic evening, holiday entertaining, or just arranging flowers for the pleasure of having them, more often than not your creative process begins with thinking about the color of the flowers that you want. To help you find what you are looking for, Flower Color Guide is the first reference book to organize flower types by color, with an emphasis on seasonality and creative color schemes - and the results are stunning in their sheer variety. What Pantone is to color, Flower Color Guide is to flowers. Showcasing 400 flowers at their peak, with stunning photography taken by Putnam & Putnam in their Brooklyn studio, this guide includes an appendix featuring perforated pages, with tips on flower care, notes on how to prepare vessels and a list of suggested color schemes. A great gift to give, or to have for oneself, the book speaks to the most seasoned flower enthusiasts as well as those just beginning to explore the possibilities of arranging flowers. Michael and Darroch Putnam have built a reputation for romantic, dramatic floral arrangements and installations using color as their guiding principle - here, they share their knowledge with readers worldwide: "This is the book we wished we had when we started doing flowers."
Download or read book Flower Colour Theory written by Darroch Putnam and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading floral designers Putnam & Putnam are back - now with the ultimate flower-arrangement reference book The follow-up to Darroch and Michael Putnam's acclaimed bestselling debut, Flower Colour Theoryis the only guide that uses colour theory as inspiration for flower arrangements. The book features 175 arrangements that show myriad ways to combine flowers of different hues, all built around colour schemes including analogous, complementary, monochromatic, triadic, transitional, and accent colours. Flower Colour Theoryis both inspirational and a guide to creating lush, romantic, and effortlessly elegant creations of your own.
Download or read book The Oil Painter s Ultimate Flower Portrait Companion written by Patricia Moran and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flower Power written by Michael Gaffney and published by Flora Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current economy, prospective brides, party givers, and commercial business people are looking for ways to create their own sophisticated floral arrangements rather than hiring expensive third parties. Featuring a well-known designer's foolproof methods, this lush guidebook brings readers into the world of the professional with secrets, tips, and formulas for great design including step-by-step instructions on everything from classic English design to exotic tropical design. With stunning color photographs detailing dozens of start-to-finish arrangements, the book provides a beautiful display of finished projects for readers to replicate and enjoy.
Download or read book The Ultimate Flower Gardener s Guide written by Jenny Rose Carey and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Full of practical insights, ideas, and inspiration to help you grow the flower-packed garden of your dreams.”—Greg Loades, author of The Modern Cottage Garden The colors, shapes, and scents of flowers are as ravishing to the senses as to the soul. But it’s all too easy get things wrong: colors that clash, flowers that bloom at the wrong time, plants that fail to thrive. Enter The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide by expert gardener Jenny Rose Carey. She tells you exactly how to get started, how to combine plants for the most spectacular effects, and how to keep your garden going from year to year. Whether you’re interested in dramatic color combinations, how best to use a favorite flower, or how to create a garden for a specific purpose, such as nourishing pollinators, you’ll find the answers in this friendly, information-packed book. As Jenny herself says, “Don’t be afraid—just have a go!”
Download or read book 100 Buttercream Flowers written by Valeri Valeriano and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let your cake decorating skills bloom with help from the world-renowned experts and authors of The Contemporary Buttercream Bible. Learn to pipe one-hundred different buttercream flowers—from azaleas to zinnias—to showcase on your cakes with this complete visual reference book. Each flower is demonstrated on a cupcake, with five full-scale projects to show you how to combine your flowers into a masterpiece cake. In this aspirational yet accessible guide, the authors demonstrate how to build up each flower using simple piping techniques that even the novice cake decorator will be able to achieve. All the basics are covered to get you started—how to make stable buttercream icing, advice on coloring and flavor, how to fill a piping bag, and more essential techniques. Valerie and Christina then demonstrate in step-by-step photographic detail how to create each flower and how to use your newfound skills to produce stunning cake designs. The flowers are presented through the color spectrum so when you look through the book, you’ll see a lovely rainbow effect. “A wonderful encyclopedia that can be used as reference or jumping off point for the experienced decorator as well as an all-in-one resource for intermediate or even ambitious beginners.” —Pink Cake Box University “The best book on decorating buttercream icing that I own . . . The step by step directions make sure there is no guessing as to how to do each flower that is illustrated.” —Red Kettle Cook
Download or read book The Ultimate Sunflower Book written by Lucy Peel and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1997-10-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Van Gogh's vibrant masterpiece to its ubiquitous presence in American crafts, from sunflower oil to sunflower seeds to The Sunflower State (Kansas), the friendly sunflower is firmly planted as an intrinsic part of our culture and our daily lives. With its sunny disposition, bright colors, and surprising versatility, it is without a doubt one of the most popular flowers around. A comprehensive guide to this remarkable flower, The Ultimate Sunflower Book features descriptions of the different species, diagrams of planting schemes, tips on growing giant sunflowers, and step-by-step instructions for creating beautiful arrangements. It also teaches readers how to dry and prepare the flowers for use in cooking and crafts and includes numerous recipes and a host of fun projects. With its gorgeous photographs, eye-catching design, and hardy jacketed paper-over-board format, The Ultimate Sunflower Book is one reference that gardeners, craft enthusiasts, flower arrangers, cooks, and all fans of the sunflower will enjoy leafing through again and again.
Download or read book Gardening Complete written by Editors of Cool Springs Press and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardening Complete is the most up-to-date and complete guide to gardening for homeowners. Explore 19 areas of critical interest to anyone who wants to learn or broaden gardening skills.
