Exotic Flowers

Do you feel creatively challenged, economy minded, and in need of some simple tricks to spruce up your home? Who doesn't? Luckily, exotic flower arrangement provides a helpful solution to your decorating problems.

Exotic Flowers

The short introduction covering general techniques and container recommendations, exotic flower arrangement takes you through the seasons. It is Filled with lush seasonal arrangements. Full-color photographs, an introduction to each season and the flowers and greenery available, a glossary for each section, and countless tips make this the ultimate guide to creating magnificent table arrangements. A beautiful floral arrangement can add the perfect touch of beauty and elegance to your home. It shares the basic principles and techniques for creating lovely bouquets for any occasion or season. It takes you step by step through the process of finding the perfect vase for your arrangement, conditioning cut flowers for maximum beauty and lifespan, and creating a sturdy foundation for your creation.

The exotic flower arrangement specific tips on growing, buying, and caring for individual types of flowers. Gorgeous color photographs and detailed instructions will teach you how to use floral tools and supplies, choose classic vases as well as unusual containers, condition flowers so they last as long as possible, plan and harvest a cutting garden, and design both the simplest and most dramatic arrangements for spring, summer, autumn, and winter. It is Filled with hundreds of breathtaking arrangements for many indoor settings and special occasions. Step-by-step instructions, line drawings, and many color photographs provide examples of successful arrangements. These are used to define essential qualities of shape, line, texture, negative space, color, and the rhythm created by the sum total of an arrangement's parts.

Exotic Flowers - It offers us easy advice on how to achieve lasting elegant, dramatic, or just plain "charming" results with artificial flowers.

By incorporating many of the classic principles of flower arranging (start your thinking with the container--not the blooms; use an odd number of stems; strip stems' bottom leaves to prevent cloudy water; always vary stem length to create asymmetry), the book serves as a friendly primer for the beginning floral artist. And yet even the most sophisticated flower arranger will be inspired by the variety and ingenuity of the 100 ideas presented here.