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Grow your own Wedding Flowers: How to grow and arrange your own flowers for all special occasions

Autor Georgie Newbery
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 noi 2015
By growing your own wedding flowers, you can add a personal element to your special occasion, while caring for the environment and saving money at the same time.Filled with gorgeous pictures, this friendly, no-nonsense book makes growing and arranging your own flowers achievable and fun. Whether you're growing for a wedding or a birthday, festival or other celebration, artisan farmer and florist Georgie Newbery's cheerful advice takes you through everything you need to know.Beginning with a foreword by Sarah Raven, this step-by-step guide covers planning, growing, cutting and conditioning your flowers. There are sections dedicated to flowers for spring, early-summer, high-summer, autumn and winter weddings to ensure you're getting the best blooms for the season. There are creative flower craft ideas for special occasions, including buttonholes, bouquets, centrepieces, garlands and flower crowns.From jam-jar posies to elaborate displays, this lovely book explains how to grow and create beautiful arrangements and make your special day unique, without costing the earth.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780857842534
ISBN-10: 0857842536
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: Colour photos throughout
Dimensiuni: 205 x 255 x 23 mm
Greutate: 1.09 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Green Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

An accessible, step-by-step guide on growing your own flowers written by florist and flower farmer Georgie Newbery. This is perfect for florists, wedding planners and anyone looking to get married or host a special occasion soon.

Notă biografică

Georgie Newbery is an artisan flower farmer and florist, supplying cut flowers direct to customers from her smallholding in Somerset. Georgie set up and runs her own business and is a leading authority on growing cut flowers. She also runs courses on growing and arranging cut flowers, and on marketing via social media for fellow growers.

Cuprins

Foreword by Sarah RavenIntroductionPart One - Practical Matters1. Planning ahead2. Growing your flowers3. Cutting and conditioningPart Two - Planning for your Wedding4. A spring wedding5. An early-summer wedding6. A high-summer wedding7. An autumn wedding8. A winter weddingPart three - Wedding Floristry9. How to make a hand-tied posy or bouquet10. How to make a buttonhole or corsage11. How to make a table centrepiece12. How to make a garland13. How to make a flower crown14. How to make fresh petal confettiAfterwordAppendix 1: Plant namesAppendix 2: Season plannerResourcesIndex

Recenzii

An excellent guide to growing seasonal, eco-friendly flowers for that very special day. Newbery writes in a way that's both chatty and yet reassuringly authoritative, offering tips on everything from selecting the finest varieties to how best to avoid any Bridezilla-style meltdowns.
This book helps you every step of the way, from choosing, to planting, to cutting and arranging ... The photography is gorgeous and the real weddings featured are full of so much pretty.
It isn't just however, a book about how to grow flowers, with Georgie's extensive experience in wedding floristry she provides invaluable advice required to ensure every step of the process runs smoothly and is realistic with the challenges that can arise.
Daunting as such a task may seem, this book's delightful descriptions and photographs of seasonal flowers may convince any bride, groom, or parent-of-the-engaged to tackle the ambitious endeavor of growing flowers for a wedding.
Even experienced gardeners would find growing perfect flowers for a wedding daunting. There is a high chance you could find yourself weeping over a bed of wilting annuals a week before the big day. I am confident, however, that this book will get you through to the wedding with bucketsfull of blooms to show for your efforts.
As with her earlier volume, The Flower Farmer's Year - an indispensable guide to setting up a flower-growing business - the information is detailed, precise and easy to understand. The author shows how to sow, grow and arrange the entire floral display, down to the last stem.
To quote Georgie Newbery from the chapter relating to the use of flower food during preparations, 'You are looking for life, growth and a field of flowers in every posy dancing a celebration of your wedding day'. To me this sums up a key message from this wonderful book, that is to take another look at locally grown flowers and seriously consider growing your own, if the idea appeals to you then this book will be essential reading in order to achieve great results, providing you get your copy well in advance of the big day so you have time to follow the advice and guidance given by Georgie.
If you like a challenge and are prepared to follow some simple guidelines then it's possible to save a fortune both on wedding flowers and on air miles. You'll have the satisfaction of creating something really beautiful and personal for a very special day.
Should you buy this book? Well of course you should. There are only a handful of books worth buying on the subject of growing and cutting flowers and this is one of them.
Consider this book an investment if you have a wedding to plan for; otherwise, flower arrangers should draw inspiration from the suggestions in the book using wildflowers, hedgerow, cutting patch and what's in the garden already. I think this is a book that will be both a brilliant winter read and an excellent reference. I give it a big thumbs up and might just have to rethink my whole seed list for next year.
This book describes how to plant, harvest and arrange blooms to reflect your own sentiment and style. Georgie Newbery inspires any bride to turn her flower dreams into a beautiful reality.
As this inspiring book shows, a great deal of hard work and planning goes into growing beautiful flowers - and there's no one better to guide you through it than Georgie.