Harvesting, Preserving & Arranging Dried Flowers (Hardcover)

~ (Author), Rob Gray (Photographer)
Key Phrases: white strawflowers, crested cockscomb, pink strawflowers, Queen Anne, Mother Nature, New York (more...)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Cameron Shaw is a professional dried- flower design business founded by British entrepreneur Russell Longmuir. The projects in this book are tightly crafted topiaries and potted bunches of flowers similar to those treated in Carol Endler Sterbenz's The Complete Book of Dried Flower Topiaries (LJ 11/1/95). Use of one plant type in a simple container is the key to these very elegant arrangements. Miller, on the other hand, harvests the flowers from her upstate New York farm for lavish sprays and pots brimming with mixed blossoms and leaves. About half of her book is devoted to up-to-date methods for drying flowers such as microwaving and glycerinization. She provides an extensive drying chart that includes trees as well as the northern garden flowers grown in New York. Each book takes a very different approach to dried-flower arrangements, and both are suitable for craft and garden collections.
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Product Description

Featuring more than 50 floral "recipes, " all illustrated with over 100 brilliant full-color photographs, Harvesting, Preserving, and Arranging Dried Flowers is the most comprehensive, contemporary, and practical book on the subject. Drawing from her 20 years of experience, Cathy Miller shows readers how to create fabulous arrangements that last for years.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Artisan (January 10, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885183518
• ISBN-13: 978-1885183514
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #162,559 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book and informative!, February 21, 1999

By	Jane Ellen Clark "Bunny Nose" (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is great for a beginner. I went to the library to find a book that would tell me how to dry my valentine roses. I so thourghly enjoyed this book I am going to buy it for myself as well as for others as a gift. Not only does it tell you how to dry flowers, but it demonstrates step by step how to grow them, and different ways to arrange them. It has beautiful pictures in it with arrangements from elegant, country to modern - something for everyone. I highly recommend it. It makes a lovely tabletop book as well as a reference book. The author Cathy Miller has designed flower arrangements for presidents throughout the years, even for President Clinton who has allergies. Cathy has designed the flower arrangements for him encased in glass!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good information on drying plants, July 13, 2006

By	Janicez (NJ USA) - See all my reviews

Excellent detailed information on many different ways to dry flowers including charts on how long flowers take to dry in different methods and which methods should be used for which plants. This takes up about half the book and is very useful for those frustrated with the few miserable pages that most books give on drying.
The rest of the book is taken up with a variety of flower displays for different styles and seasons. Instructions are given but they are fairly basic such as "add hydrangea from front and center' For a beginner these instructions may not be sufficient to achieve the results show without a lot of perseverance. The Majority of the photographs are good, helpful and easy to use as guides. A few however concentrate more on the scene than the display making it difficult to duplicate. Overall it's a very good book.
My major complaint about this book is the mixing of displays and instructions into the chapters on drying rather than concentrating them in one section of the book. It means you have to keep paging through to find what you want rather than just looking in one section.

9 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful and informative..., August 26, 1999

By A Customer

Great book full of info and ideas, worth your time and money