Product Details

• Published on: 1999-02-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 96 pages

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One of the joys of gardening is bringing cut flowers into the house, enjoying their colors, textures, and perfume close up. No flower is more beloved than the rose, so it always seems as if the growing season for roses is far too brief. Arranging Roses: How to Create Glorious Fresh and Dried Displays contains a variety of ideas for making roses last and enjoying them indoors in far more innovative ways than the typical florist's dozen long-stemmed red roses (not that there is anything wrong with that, either).

Full-page color photos provide inspiration, and close-up detailed photos illustrate techniques for making garlands, swags, corsages, table arrangements, and wreaths out of fresh and dried roses. The ideas range from the simple to the more elaborate: dried roses wrapped with raffia packed into a colorful olive oil tin, rosebud candle rings, or an autumnal bundle of orange roses wrapped with leaves. Tiny rose buds mixed with eucalyptus are wired onto hair combs, red roses and lavender are tightly packed together and tied with ribbons to make a fragrant old-fashioned tussie mussie, and pale pink roses are laced with conifers for a holiday swag. A wide variety of other garden materials are mixed with the roses in these projects: leaves, cones, pods, wheat, lavender, moss, and dried fruit expand the range of decorating styles from the classic to the modern.

How to handle the roses is explained in great detail, from steaming and drying to wrapping and wiring. If you long to bring your garden inside and enjoy your favorite flower every month of the year, you'll enjoy making these innovative yet simple arrangements. --Valerie Easton

Customer Reviews

Great book that you'll use again and again! Great for brides
The book is perfect for the home designer, or whoever is interested in making rose arrangments. I love my copy because I live in San Diego, CA where I have roses all year round and always like to find soemthing to do with them. If you are a bride or know someone who is going to ne, this book has everything you need: party-table-edge swag, centerpiece arrangments, heart-shaped wreaths, wreaths for around candles, bridal bouquet, victorian bridal posey, bridesmaids posey, bridesmaid head crown and bride head crown, and bridesmaids baskets. There are also corsages, the popular rose tree sculptures and much more. One of the great ideas was for a centerpiece that goes around, say a nice tub of ice with champagne or etc. This is great for decorating any event. The only thing that would have made this book alot better is if the editor had included window treatments. The pictures are good, and the directions are clear. It's simple to follow and fun. This is a book you'll get use out of time and time again!