The Country Diary Book Of Flowers

Author : Carol Petelin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466892331
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Carol Petelin
Publisher : Michael Joseph
ISBN 13 : 9780863503078
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Country Diary Book of Flowers written by Carol Petelin and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1991-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the same author as The Creative Guide to Dried Flowers this book gives instructions for the drying of flowers and for their arrangement into posies and formal arrangments. It includes methods for the making of gifts from pressed flowers, which have been popular since Victorian times.

Author : Ina Taylor
Publisher : Michael Joseph
ISBN 13 : 9780863503733
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Sarah Hollis
Publisher : Penguin Press HC
ISBN 13 : 9781854714015
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Margaret Erskine Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910723319
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Paula Sutton
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 0593234472
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hill House Living written by Paula Sutton and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous guide to the simple pleasures of cottage living—antique hunting, gardening, and enjoying the seasons—from a beloved British design and fashion influencer. A happy home is everything. No one knows this better than stylist and blogger Paula Sutton, who is behind the beloved Instagram account Hill House Vintage. Like many people, Paula gave years of her life to the busyness of the city until she traded catwalks for dog walks and couture for manure after leaving office life a decade ago. Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of photographs and drawings, this book gives you a full glimpse into life at Hill House. Inspired by Paula's love of all things vintage, and filled with simple, stylish, and thrifty tips and tricks for every area of the house, this book will bring the best of country life into your home, wherever you are. In a world that often moves too fast, Hill House Living is an invitation to take a moment to style, make or cook something nice for its own sake—and yours. Slow down, cozy up, and join the quest to making each day more intentionally joyful.

Author : Tamsin Westhorpe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903360491
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Modern Country Gardener written by Tamsin Westhorpe and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Molly Peacock
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773058398
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flower Diary written by Molly Peacock and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Graceful yet precise, poetic yet deeply rooted in research, this exploration of an overlooked painter is gorgeous — a joy to read. Molly Peacock’s insights and empathy with her subject bring to life both Mary Hiester Reid and her luscious flower paintings.” — Charlotte Gray, author of The Massey Murder Molly Peacock uncovers the history of neglected painter Mary Hiester Reid, a trailblazing artist who refused to choose between marriage and a career. Born into a patrician American family in the middle of the nineteenth century, Mary Hiester Reid was determined to be a painter and left behind women’s design schools to enter the art world of men. After she married fellow artist George Reid, she returned with him to his home country of Canada. There she set about creating over 300 stunning still life and landscape paintings, inhabiting a rich, if sometimes difficult, marriage, coping with a younger rival, exhibiting internationally, and becoming well-reviewed. She studied in Paris, traveled in Spain, and divided her time between Canada and the United States where she lived among America’s Arts and Crafts movement titans. She left slender written records; rather, her art became her diary and Flower Diary unfolds with an artwork for each episode of her life. In this sumptuous and precisely researched biography, celebrated poet and biographer Molly Peacock brings Mary Hiester Reid, foremother of painters such as Georgia O’Keefe, out of the shadows, revealing a fascinating, complex woman who insisted on her right to live as a married artist, not as a tragic heroine. Peacock uses her poet’s skill to create a structurally inventive portrait of this extraordinary woman whom modernism almost swept aside, weaving threads of her own marriage with Hiester Reid’s, following the history of empathy and examining how women manage the demands of creativity and domesticity, coping with relationships, stoves, and steamships, too. How do you make room for art when you must go to the market to buy a chicken for dinner? Hiester Reid had her answers, as Peacock gloriously discovers.

Author : Jonathan Andrews
Publisher : Michael Joseph
ISBN 13 : 9780863501159
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Country Diary Book of Creating a Wild Flower Garden written by Jonathan Andrews and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edith Holden
Publisher : Penguin Press HC
ISBN 13 : 9781854711335
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cookery Notes written by Edith Holden and published by Penguin Press HC. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of traditional Victorian and Edwardian recipes and menus (adapted for modern use) selected by cookery writer Alison Harding and illustrated with watercolours from the international bestseller 'The Country diary of an Edwardian lady' by Edith Holden.