The Creative Book of Dried Flowers [antikvár]

INTRODUCTIONToday, dried flower arranging is a fashionable and exciting pastime. It is no longer associated with a few dark and dusty plants hidden away in a corner, but with displays as packed with colour and variety as any fresh flower arrangement. And the displays are there to be enjoyed for years rather than merely days.With detailed step-by-step instructions, this book will show you how to create an exciting array of imaginative designs garlands, wreaths, mobiles, pomanders, pot-pourri, centrepieces and many more. There is also essential information on what to buy, how to dry your own flowers, the equipment you will need, plus the various techniques employed. To help you identify the plants used throughout the book there is also a colour plate on pages 18/19 showing you twenty of the more common ones.In most cases, flowers have been given their common names except in those instances where the Latin is more often used. But as the naming of flowers tends to vary from one florist to another some using common names, others Latin the scientific names of plants have also been given at the back of the book.