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Author Nancy Ross Hugo demonstrates how to use the windowsill as a platform for small, simple displays that celebrate the seasons and reflect the personal style of their creators.
About the author
Nancy Ross Hugo has been writing, lecturing and teaching about trees, native plants and floral design for over thirty years. Her passion is celebrating the everyday plants and other growing things in our lives that we often overlook. Beginning in 2011, Hugo began creating small, spare arrangements on her windowsill, using this daily exercise as a way of connecting to the seasons and exploring the creative process She blogs about and photographs these windowsill arrangements ¿ keeping her eyes open to all things wild and wonderful.
In 2020, she was one of the American Horticultural Society's "Great American Gardeners National Award Winners," being honored with the Frances Jones Poetker Award, for ¿significant contributions to floral design...¿ Nancy Ross Hugo is also the author of the book
Seeing Trees. Her writing has appeared in
Horticulture, Fine Gardening, American Forests, Country Journal, Virginia Living, and
Country Life. She has been recognized for excellence in magazine and newspaper feature writing by the Garden Writers Association and by the Virginia Urban Forest Council. The author lives and gardens in Ashland, Virginia.
nancyrosshugo.com
Summary
Almost everyone does it: puts a little something on the windowsill to watch it ripen, root, or just sit there looking pretty. But the windowsill can serve as a stage for more intentional arrangements – a personal, free-wheeling kind of art…a catalyst for creativity. Author Nancy Ross Hugo demonstrates how to use the windowsill as a platform for small, simple displays that celebrate the seasons and reflect the personal style of their creators. Her fresh approach uses bottles, jars and other small vases to showcase arrangements of locally collected leaves, seedpods, flowers, fruits and twigs. In Windowsill Art the reader will learn how to find and display materials, why some containers work better than others, how to combine materials – and simple techniques to enhance creative possibilities. Beautiful full-color photographs throughout.
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What could be better than a windowsill full of garden treasures ready for their close-up? Nancy Ross Hugo's Windowsill Art shares the joy of gathering garden ingredients to enjoy up close and personal. It's time to get rid of those dusty African violets and bring something fresh into your home. -James Augustus Baggett, Editor, Country Gardens
