Dried Flowers: Harvesting, Preserving and Arranging

Dried Flowers: Harvesting, Preserving and Arranging

by Cathy Miller (Author)

Synopsis

For the millions of flower lovers who don't have the luxury of decorating with fresh blooms every week, Cathy Miller's Harvesting, Preserving & Arranging Dried Flowers offers the perfect solution: an inexpensive, expressive way to create warmth and beauty year-round.

Featuring more than fifty floral recipes. All illustrated with brilliant full-color photographs by Rob Gray, Harvesting, Preserving & Arranging Dried Flowers is the most comprehensive, contemporary, and practical book on the subject. By mixing such popular favorites as carnations and marigolds with more exotic flora like cattails and eucalyptus leaves, and by incorporating a wide range of organic elements--fruits, grasses and weeds, seasonal ornaments, even found objects--Harvesting, Preserving & Arranging Dried Flowers celebrates the full extent of nature's bounty.

Drawing from her twenty-plus years of expertise in the art and craft of drying flowers, using the most up-to-date methods--including microwaving and glycerinization--and aided by an assortment of household products, Cathy Miller shows readers how to create fabulous arrangements that last for years. The preserved roses, delphiniums, peonies, and other blooms that beckon from the pages of Harvesting, Preserving & Arranging Dried Flowers look as if they were just plucked from the soil.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Publisher: Artisan Books
Published: 31 Oct 1997

ISBN 10: 1885183518
ISBN 13: 9781885183514

Author Bio
Rob Gray has photographed twelve books, including In the Arts & Crafts Style (Chronicle), Perennials, Annuals, and Country Flowers (all HarperCollins). His work has been featured in HG, House Beautiful, Metropolitan Home, New York, Art & Antiques, Self, and Money, among other magazines. An avid triathlete, Gray lives in New York City with his wife and daughter. Cathy Miller is the recipient of numerous gardening and floral design awards, and has written for several magazines, including Better Homes & Gardens, Family Circle, Woman's Day, House & Garden, Country Living, Victorian Home, Victorian Accents, and Brides. When not working from her farm in upstate New York, she resides in Hawthorne, New Jersey, and lectures around the country on dried flowers.