This title features over 150 innovative flower designs in traditional & contemporary styles by a leading floral designer. It teaches the full range of flower arranging techniques in an easy-to-follow format enabling the reader to create all the designs from the very simple to the elaborate. You can make a classic Tulip Arrangement Blue & White Tussie Mussies a Red Tied Sheaf & Ornamental Cabbage Tree. Ideas for special occasions include wedding nosegays buttonholes & posies Easter bouquets Christmas swags & Valentine's circlets. It
Includes:: displays using fresh & dried flowers & foliage with designs to suit every room of the house & for every season & celebration. It offers over 700 beautifully-crafted images including step-by-step photographs of each display. This beautiful book is a complete guide to creating innovative flower designs for any occasion or setting. The 150 step-by-step projects are organized within sections on Fresh Flowers Dried Flower & Flowers for Special Occasions. The designs use every kind of flower foliage or natural decoration & range from simple & restrained to rich & flamboyant. Projects include an Aurum Lily Vase a Bride's Victorian Posy & a striking Flower Cone. Accessible to beginners the range of ideas will challenge the most experienced flower designer. Over 700 photographs by the lifestyle photographer Debbie Patterson show how to use the right setting for every arrangement. There is also advice on basic equipment harvesting seasonal availability & containers. Whatever the occasion you will find the perfect arrangement here.