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

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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Foreword by Sarah Raven
Introduction

Part One - Practical Matters
1. Planning ahead
2. Growing your flowers
3. Cutting and conditioning

Part Two - Planning for your Wedding
4. A spring wedding
5. An early-summer wedding
6. A high-summer wedding
7. An autumn wedding
8. A winter wedding

Part three - Wedding Floristry
9. How to make a hand-tied posy or bouquet
10. How to make a buttonhole or corsage
11. How to make a table centrepiece
12. How to make a garland
13. How to make a flower crown
14. How to make fresh petal confetti

Afterword
Appendix 1: Plant names
Appendix 2: Season planner
Resources
Index

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Georgie Newbery, Newbery Georgie
• Editore: Bloomsbury
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 19.11.2015
• EAN: 9780857842534
• ISBN: 978-0-85784-253-4
• Pagine: 224
• Dimensioni: 212 mm x 260 mm x 20 mm
• Peso: 1020 g
• Illustrazioni: Colour photos throughout
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Hobby, casa > Idee creative; Saggistica > Natura, tecnica > Natura: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; REFERENCE / Weddings, GARDENING / Ornamental Plants, GARDENING / Flowers / General, CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Flower Arranging, Weddings, wedding planners, Gardening: flowers, Flower arranging and floral crafts, Gardening: flowers and ornamental plants, Flower arranging & floral crafts