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9781885183514

Harvesting, Preserving & Arranging Dried Flowers

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  • ISBN13:

    9781885183514

  • ISBN10:

    1885183518

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-01-10
  • Publisher: Artisan

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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

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