Grow your own Wedding Flowers

How to grow and arrange your own flowers for all special occasions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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By growing your own wedding flowers, you can add a personal element to your special occasion, while caring for the environment and saving money at the same time.Filled with gorgeous pictures, this friendly, no-nonsense book makes growing and arranging your own flowers achievable and fun. Whether you’re growing for a wedding or a birthday, festival or other celebration, artisan farmer and florist Georgie Newbery’s cheerful advice takes you through everything you need to know.Beginning with a foreword by Sarah Raven, this step-by-step guide covers planning, growing, cutting and conditioning your flowers. There are sections dedicated to flowers for spring, early-summer, high-summer, autumn and winter weddings to ensure you’re getting the best blooms for the season. There are creative flower craft ideas for special occasions, including buttonholes, bouquets, centrepieces, garlands and flower crowns.From jam-jar posies to elaborate displays, this lovely book explains how to grow and create beautiful arrangements and make your special day unique, without costing the earth.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-11-19
Mått:208 x 257 x 23 mm
Vikt:1 090 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780857842534

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Georgie Newbery is an artisan flower farmer and florist, supplying cut flowers direct to customers from her smallholding in Somerset. Georgie set up and runs her own business and is a leading authority on growing cut flowers. She also runs courses on growing and arranging cut flowers, and on marketing via social media for fellow growers.

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An excellent guide to growing seasonal, eco-friendly flowers for that very special day. Newbery writes in a way that’s both chatty and yet reassuringly authoritative, offering tips on everything from selecting the finest varieties to how best to avoid any Bridezilla-style meltdowns.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Sarah RavenIntroductionPart One - Practical Matters1. Planning ahead2. Growing your flowers3. Cutting and conditioningPart Two - Planning for your Wedding4. A spring wedding5. An early-summer wedding6. A high-summer wedding7. An autumn wedding8. A winter weddingPart three - Wedding Floristry9. How to make a hand-tied posy or bouquet10. How to make a buttonhole or corsage11. How to make a table centrepiece12. How to make a garland13. How to make a flower crown14. How to make fresh petal confettiAfterwordAppendix 1: Plant namesAppendix 2: Season plannerResourcesIndex