The Flower Book

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A poignant and visually stunning accomplishment, showing how artists have been so devoted and obsessed with our symbiotic relationship to flowers for generations.

Many wildflower guides are organised according to plant families, but this book uses a simpler and easier approach: in the catalogue section, flowers are arranged by colour and then by size, helping you to easily home in on the particular flower that you want to identify. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. It tells not only the story of how to press flowers, but it is full of the most wonderful tales of nature and myth and magic and all of the things that make an English flower garden so precious that we want to pick and press the flowers in the first place … punctuated with practical ideas'.

Following our cut flower season in 2016, from spring tulips to summer sweet peas and autumn dahlias, Rachel recommends how to select the best flowers, keep them fresh at home, and display each one to celebrate its natural beauty. M Godding Books Ltd is an internet book business running from Wiltshire and sending books all over the world every working day. Cut flower classics such as peonies and dahlias rub shoulders with daisies, climbers, grasses and fruit blossom. It was printed by Henri Piazza, who hand-stencilled watercolour over collotypes using the pochoir technique to produce brilliant colours.

Celebrate all things botanical and learn about the art of pressing flowers with this beautiful new book by the florists of South London’s beloved JamJar. The recurring presence of flowers blends and merges the stories into a new shape, like a bouquet of wildflowers and weeds plucked from the edges of a sidewalk.The Beauty of the Flower twins a dazzling and well-chosen display of botanical illustrations with a cogent and readable analysis of the botanical exploration and science that led to it. In normal times, visits to gardens, jaunts to discover those famous scenic landscapes and soaking up lush vistas are, of course, one of the highlights for travellers the world over.

Worked in watercolours, bodycolour (or gouache), and gold paint, the paintings reflect the landscape around Rottingdean and include favourite themes from Burne-Jones's work: Witches' Tree (no. This elegant catalogue brings together all engravings from Redouté’s illustrations of Roses and Choix des plus belles fleurs (Selection of the Most Beautiful Flowers) and the most astounding images from The Lilies.Gathered together, these floral fragments from the 1950s to the 1990s offer a collective memory, a blurry narrative formed from the lives of many. The first 30 or so pages are “how to” then the rest of the book is divided by season, with in-depth flower profiles and more arrangements peppered through. This collection brings our best-selling XL-sized edition to a smaller, more convenient format, still gathering some of the finest color engravings from Redouté’s illustrations of Roses, Lilies, and Choix des plus belles fleurs et quelques branches des plus beaux fruits( Selection of the Most Beautiful Blooms and Branches with the Finest Fruits). Flower farmer and floral designer Rachel Siegfried celebrates, bloom by bloom, the loveliest flowers for the home, with beautiful close-up photography that reveals the flowers' intricate colours, shapes, and textures. Accompanied by stunning floral photography you will also find pages of handy tips and tricks, sewing up instructions and guides for tension, basic stitches and much more!