Product Description

For the millions of flower lovers who don't have the luxury of decorating with fresh blooms every week, Cathy Miller's Harvesting, Preserving and 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 and 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 and 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 and Arranging Dried Flowers look as if they were just plucked from the soil.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #627745 in Books
• Published on: 1996-12-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

From Library Journal
Cameron Shaw is a professional dried- flower design business founded by British entrepreneur Russell Longmuir. The projects in this book are tightly crafted topiaries and potted bunches of flowers similar to those treated in Carol Endler Sterbenz's The Complete Book of Dried Flower Topiaries (LJ 11/1/95). Use of one plant type in a simple container is the key to these very elegant arrangements. Miller, on the other hand, harvests the flowers from her upstate New York farm for lavish sprays and pots brimming with mixed blossoms and leaves. About half of her book is devoted to up-to-date methods for drying flowers such as microwaving and glycerinization. She provides an extensive drying chart that includes trees as well as the northern garden flowers grown in New York. Each book takes a very different approach to dried-flower arrangements, and both are suitable for craft and garden collections.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Featuring more than 50 floral "recipes, " all illustrated with over 100 brilliant full-color photographs, Harvesting, Preserving, and Arranging Dried Flowers is the most comprehensive, contemporary, and practical book on the subject. Drawing from her 20 years of experience, Cathy Miller shows readers how to create fabulous arrangements that last for years.

From the Inside Flap
With petals so delicate and vibrantly colored they look as if they were just plucked from the soil, preserved roses, delphiniums, peonies, and other blooms beckon from the pages of Cathy Miller's Harvesting, Preserving and Arranging Dried Flowers. Drawing form her twenty-plus years of expertise in the art and craft of drying flowers, using the most up-to-date methods--including microwaving and glyceriniation--and aided by an assortment of household products, Miller shows readers how to create fabulous arrangements that last for years. Featuring more than fifty floral "recipes," all illustrated with brilliant full-color photographs by Rob Gray, Harvesting, Preserving and 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 and Arranging Dried Flowers celebrates the full extent of nature' s bounty. First discussing the basics, Miller explains how to grow flowers, including staggered schedules for blooming and the best times to cut, pinpointed to the hour. She follows with detailed instructions for preservation and storage, outlining optimum drying conditions for more than 120 varieties of flowers in a specifically designed chart. In the process, she offers charming bits of homespun wisdom and shares the secrets that have earned her invitations to create dried floral arrangements for the past four Presidential administrations. For the millions of flower lovers who don't have the luxury of decorating with fresh blooms every week, Harvesting, Preserving and Arranging Dried Flowers presents the perfect solution: an inexpensive, expressive way to create warmth and beauty year-round.