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"When you bring flowers into your home and your life, you surround your family and friends with natural beauty that creates a climate of well-being and continuity." Barbara Milo Ohrbach, author of nine books, including the best-selling The Scented Room, now celebrates the joy of flowers in her gorgeously photographed new book, Simply Flowers. Ms. Ohrbach brings her creative approach and exquisite taste to arranging fresh flowers, providing all the basics you will need to effortlessly decorate and beautify your home with flowers, from simple country baskets spilling with vibrant wild flowers to stylish arrangements of carefully chosen blossoms. Filled with practical advice and innovative ideas, including handy lists of botanicals, Simply Flowers is a very personal and imaginative book that takes the mystery out of flower arranging, making it easy and enjoyable. Ms. Ohrbach offers important tips on selecting and cutting flowers, and how to keep them looking fresh and beautiful for as long as possible; choosing the proper vase to complement your bouquet; finding the perfect place for your flowers; clever ways of mixing fruits and vegetables with botanicals; and simple arrangements that are especially quick to make when you're pressed for time. She discusses forcing bulbs and branches; using silk flowers and house plants; and ways to use ribbons and fabrics that will turn your flowers into charming and welcome gifts. Readers with green thumbs (and even those without) will find helpful suggestions for planning their own cutting gardens or window boxes. And for anyone who likes to entertain, there are easy ideas for inventive table decorations. At the end of her book, Ms. Ohrbach shares the sources she has relied on over the years for cut flowers and arrangements, books on flowers and gardening, and catalogues for bulbs, seeds, plants, and tools and accessories. Whether you're a practiced hand at flower arranging, new to the art, or someone who just has a passion for flower-filled rooms, Simply Flowers will be a perennial inspiration. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This one is not, despite the title, 'simple.' It is overly wordy, and the 'recipes' are too often unclear, without pictures for intermediate steps. This does have some extra, helpful, information & photos about tools & supplies and how to use them - advice that is included in the Welford but not in as much depth.
This also includes a chapter about the history of flowers, one about artificial flowers, and one about growing flowers, as well as a bit more about how to make the flowers fit the space.
But this one is not as helpful to most of us, especially those of us without space for a garden. There are not nearly as many varieties of arrangements, there are no actual lessons or themes. And the attitude is more elitist. Her US florists are all in NY and CT, and she says stuff like When I'm in Paris, I always go to this shop." Well lucky you.
Do bear in mind that I cannot evaluate these relative to your position. There are *lots* of books like this available - I suggest you do your own, more thorough, research before choosing which one to actually buy.
I'm giving Welford's book one more star than I'm giving this, and that is (of these two) the one I'd be more likely to buy, and now, off I go to edit that review.
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