Harvesting, Preserving & Arranging Dried Flowers

by Miller, Cathy; Gray, Rob

• ISBN13: 9781885183514
• ISBN10: 1885183518
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-10
• Publisher: Artisan

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	9	(2)
INTRODUCTION	11	(8)
THE HARVEST	19	(22)
CHAPTER ONE From Dirt to Dahlias	19	(12)
CHAPTER TWO Gathering the Flowers	31	(10)
TIME TO DRY	41	(50)
CHAPTER THREE Hanging to Dry	41	(16)
CHAPTER FOUR Drying with Desiccants	57	(10)
CHAPTER FIVE Try the Microwave	67	(8)
CHAPTER SIX Glycerinization	75	(5)
FLOWER-DRYING CHART	80	(11)
THE DESIGN	91
CHAPTER SEVEN The Victorian Style	91	(20)
CHAPTER EIGHT Arrangements for All Seasons	111	(20)
CHAPTER NINE The Country Look	131	(28)
CHAPTER TEN Holiday Designs	159	(41)
APPENDICES
Flower-Drying Pantry	200	(1)
Bibliography	201	(1)
Mail-Order Sources	201	(1)
Index of Common Names	202	(2)
Index of Botanical Names	204	(2)
Index	206