The Country Diary Book Of Flowers

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 Wild Flowers written by Sarah Hollis and published by Penguin Press HC. This book was released on 1995-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Edwardian Lady written by Ina Taylor and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1990 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN 1905 AND 1906 EDITH HOLDEN WROTE THE BOOKS THAT WERE LATER PUBLISHED AS THE COUNTRY DIARY OF AN EDWARDIAN LADY AND THE NATURE NOTES OF AN EDWARDIAN LADY. HER WORK HAS CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION OF THE READING PUBLIC ALL OVER THE WORLD. INA TAYLOR HAS WRITTEN A FUTHER CHAPTER FOR THIS NEW EDITION, ON EDITH'S NEWLY DISCOVERED NATURE NOTES OF AN EDWARDIAN LADY. 247X191MM, 228PP INTEGRATED COLOUR THROUGHOUT.7000X80PX$15.95.ROYALTY 15%(KM/JS 6.7.89). CANT QUOTE UNTIL JULIA PROVIDES SAMPLE BOOKS FOR OVERSEAS COS.

Download or read book The Book of Wild Flowers written by The National Geographic Society and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume spotlights some of the finest imagery of its kind. It features 120 plates by Mary E. Eaton, who was a staff illustrator of the New York Botanical Garden from 1911 to 1932. Also included are 8 illustrations by botanical illustrator E. J. Geske. The first-rate botanical illustrations remain fresh and attractive to the modern eye"--

Download or read book Wild Flowers of Britain written by Margaret Erskine Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Erskine Wilson, late President of Kendal Natural History Society, was a keen amateur botanist and water-colourist. In 1999, she donated to the Society 150 sheets of water-colour paintings representing a thousand British and Irish plants in flower and in fruit, painted in situ over many years and in various places. At the time she donated the paintings to Kendal Natural History Society, she wrote: Begun in 1943/4 for a friend who said, 'I might learn the names of flowers if you drew them for me, in the months they're in flower'! The result is this beautiful, previously unpublished book of all her accurate and informative illustrations, painted over a period of 45 years. Over a thousand British and Irish flowers are represented in this book and it still today serves Margaret Erskine Wilson's original purpose -- it is an easy way to learn the names of our delicate and beautiful wild flowers.

Download or read book England Is a Garden written by Catherine Hamilton and published by Collins & Brown. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nature Notes for 1906 written by Edith Holden and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: