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Introduces a series of innovative and creative ways to bring flowers into one's life throughout every season of the year, offering helpful instruction in the basics of flower arranging, from essential equipment and techniques to guidance on design principles of color, balance, texture, and proportion, accompanied by helpful shortcuts, insider secrets, and more. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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Let Jim McCann and Julie McCann-Mulligan - the creative team from the nation's #1 distributor of fresh flowers at 1-800-Flowers - show you fabulous, innovative ways to add nature's beauty to your home. Flower arranging has never been this easy-or this much fun!A sunny, fresh bouquet of daffodils enchants with the promise of spring. A sprig of tiny blush pink roses tucked into a silver bud vase makes a quiet statement of love and romance. Throughout the year, nothing speaks to the beauty of life's everyday joys and special occasions like flowers. With the inspiration of this gorgeous full-color book from the nation's leading source of fresh-cut and seasonal flowers, anyone can learn how to have fun with flowers in novel and delightful ways. Here you will find: - Flower arranging basics-equipment you need to get started; tips on cleaning, cutting, and conditioning stems; guidance on design principles of color and texture, balance and proportion- A glorious celebration of the seasons-with such choices as dogwood, tulips, and lilacs in spring; zinnias, sweet peas, and peonies in summer; sunflowers, chrysanthemums, and decorative gourds in autumn; poinsettias, holly, evergreen boughs, and pine cones in winter - Dozens of original presentations, both elegant and whimsical-from a fresh vegetable vase made of beautiful green asparagus to a stylish place setting and napkin ring of lemon leaves and fragrant seeded eucalyptusWith step-by-step instructions and sidebars sprinkled throughout providing insider secrets, shortcuts, creative solutions to commonly asked questions, and some advanced techniques, A Year Full of Flowers will turn any flower lover into an inventive flower arranger.
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