
Grow your own Wedding Flowers
How to grow and arrange your own flowers for all special occasions
- 224 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Grow your own Wedding Flowers
How to grow and arrange your own flowers for all special occasions
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Praise for Grow your own Wedding Flowers
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Dedication and acknowledgements
- Foreword by Sarah Raven
- Introduction
- PART ONE: PRACTICAL MATTERS
- Chapter 1. Planning ahead
- Chapter 2. Growing your flowers
- Chapter 3. Cutting and conditioning
- PART TWO: PLANNING FOR YOUR WEDDING
- Chapter 4. A spring wedding
- Chapter 5. An early summer wedding
- Chapter 6. A high summer wedding
- Chapter 7. An autumn wedding
- Chapter 8. A winter wedding
- PART THREE: WEDDING FLORISTRY
- How to make a hand-tied posy or bouquet
- How to make a buttonhole or corsage
- How to make a table centrepiece
- How to make a garland
- How to make a flower crown
- How to make fresh petal confetti
- Afterword
- Appendix 1: Plant names
- Appendix 2: Season planner
- Resources
- Index