Floristry

This book Filled with easy to follow care instructions, flower availability, colour range and vase life, there are also tips on simple arranging, the flowers suitability for wedding work and advice on drying and preserving. Each flower has a colour photograph making identification easy.

This lavish book covers the full range of commercial techniques for the florist. It introduces basic terms and equipment, advises on conditioning and care of fresh materials, and explains the elements and principles of design. Examining various celebrations and occasions, it demonstrates classic and contemporary designs with step by step instructions and over 600 full colour photographs.

The how to manual for everyone interested in pursuing flowers as a career or wanting to know how to arrange flowers for their own special occasion. In step by step guides the reader is taken from the basics of wiring techniques through to more advanced floristry design work.

This work is designed for keen florists and flower arrangers. Based on the National Floristry Training Requirements, it covers basic terms and equipment, principles of design, working techniques, buying materials, and the care and storage of plant material. Weddings and funerals are covered too.

Featuring a gorgeous collection of flower-based projects, the book includes step-by-step how-tos for eye-catching earrings, rings, necklaces, boutonnieres, hair pieces, crowns, and more, plus tons of useful information on tools, flower selection, and plant care.

A glorious survey of work by more than 70 contemporary floral designers who are extending the boundaries of their art Blooms celebrates the explosive impact that floral designers from the last decade have had on a previously underappreciated art form.

Design with flowers in your own authentic, effortless style. In this picture filled guide you will find everything you need to know about crafting with natural design elements, developing your own effortless style of designing and creating meaningful and remarkable floral designs.

Flowers are associated with all the important events in our lives, whether celebratory or commemorative, but they can also cheer our everyday existence and enliven the spaces around us. This book shows just how.

Fleur McHarg has cultivated a lifelong obsession with flowers, their colors, shapes and, uses. Guided by the wisdom of Constance Spry, the trailblazing twentieth- century florist, McHarg believes in letting flowers be the stars of the show by working with the natural shape of a flower or branch..

Just as fruits and vegetables taste best when they are harvested locally and seasonally, flowers that are picked close to home and at their peak reflect a true connection to time and place. Nature does not deliver its harvest all at once each season has its stars and Ariella Chezar, author of The Flower Workshop, shows you how to make the most of them.

As Chief Floral Designer during her six years in the White House, Laura Dowling was responsible for the dazzling floral pieces that stunned visitors, welcomed politicians and diplomats, and added style to holidays throughout the year. Now she shares her years of experience in a new series of practical how to books, which will make her inspiring pieces achievable for all.

Learn about colour combination ideas together with flowers in corresponding colors. The color schemes are based in four primary tones: Pastel, Vivid, Smokey and Dark. In addition to introductory pages highlighting fundamental color theory, each scheme is accompanied with beautiful full-color photographs.

Create dazzling, contemporary bouquets all year long with this gorgeous floral designs book. Learn the secrets to designing show stopping monochromatic arrangements: In this stunning book, Kiana Underwood shares her techniques for creating dazzling single color displays using inspired ingredients, dramatic textures, and vibrant colors.

The ultimate colour by colour flower reference guide from New York's pre-eminent floral designers, Putnam and Putnam Planning a wedding, a dinner, a birthday party, a romantic evening, holiday entertaining, or just arranging flowers for the pleasure of having them, more often than not your creative process begins with thinking about the colour of the flowers that you want.

The World of Colour According to Per Benjamin is an educational entertaining inspirational book where his colour theory is explained in text, but above all presented in a very creative, visual hands on style in beautiful pictures and colour charts. The photos will be a mixture of studio works, outdoor pieces and bigger event designs and they will show both small and extra large arrangements.

Red. White. Green. Yellow. Pink. Blue. Floral designer Jane Packer works her way through the color wheel and through the garden, creating unique, whimsical and totally stunning arrangements of fresh flowers and foliage, with instructions on how to achieve similarly spectacular results at home.

One of the most anticipated experiences in every bride to be's wedding planning is choosing her bouquet. However, when faced with the real-life sea of styles and flowers, a bride to be may soon become overwhelmed.

Flowers have been used in wedding ceremonies for centuries; fashions may change but their popularity endures. Today brides can choose from an ever widening range of styles and designs including spectacular blooms, individual fantasies and simple, natural displays the creative potential is huge when a love of flowers is combined with the confidence to experiment.

Flowers are one of the most important elements of a wedding. By following the detailed information in this book you will be able to create glorious displays to make that special day one that will never be forgotten.

Published by the Society of American Florists, this manual contains the following: Part 1. Consumers and financial rewards -- Part 2. The hows of flower and plant care -- Part 3. The whys of flower and plant care.