Slow Flowers

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Debra Prinzing. Slow Flowers

slow flowers

TABLE OF CONTENTS

STOP, SMELL – AND GATHER THE ROSES

My 52 Weeks of Local Flowers

Is this floral design?

Why Slow Flowers?

SPRING

SPRING | WEEK 1. TULIPS & TWIGS

SPRING | WEEK 2. ZEN IN BLOOM

SPRING | WEEK 3. BEAUTY FROM BRANCHES

SPRING | WEEK 4. CHOCOLATE-AND-VANILLA

SPRING | WEEK 5. A FLORAL WELCOME

SPRING | WEEK 6. FRESH AND FRAGRANT

SPRING | WEEK 7. JEWEL TONES

SPRING | WEEK 8. STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS

SPRING | WEEK 9. FIRST PEONIES OF THE SEASON

SPRING | WEEK 10. A SOFTER SIDE OF GREEN

SPRING | WEEK 11. PITCHERS OF POPPIES

SPRING | WEEK 12. JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE

SPRING | WEEK 13. A BIT OF PURPLE HEAVEN

SUMMER

SUMMER | WEEK 1. A CERTAIN VINTAGE

SUMMER | WEEK 2. SUMMER GLOW

SUMMER | WEEK 3. A STROLL IN THE GARDEN

SUMMER | WEEK 4. AMERICAN ROSES

SUMMER | WEEK 5. HEAVENLY HYDRANGEAS

SUMMER | WEEK 6. STUNNING SUCCULENTS

SUMMER | WEEK 7. FLIGHTS OF FANCY

SUMMER | WEEK 8. PASSION FOR PEONIES

SUMMER | WEEK 9. UP ON THE ROOF

SUMMER | WEEK 10. SUMMER CONFECTIONS

SUMMER | WEEK 11. FRUIT AND FLOWERS

SUMMER | WEEK 12. MADE – AND GROWN – IN AMERICA

SUMMER | WEEK 13. SEEDPODS AND PETALS

AUTUMN

AUTUMN | WEEK 1. AUTUMN’S FADING HUES

AUTUMN | WEEK 2. RHYTHM IN GLASS

AUTUMN | WEEK 3. TO GRACE MY KITCHEN COUNTER

AUTUMN | WEEK 4. OLD WORLD MEETS NEW FLOWERS

AUTUMN | WEEK 5. CLUSTERS OF PINK

AUTUMN | WEEK 6. HAPPY HALLOWEEN

AUTUMN | WEEK 7. MARKET FRESH

AUTUMN | WEEK 8. TARNISHED AND TEXTURED

AUTUMN | WEEK 9. VINTAGE PATINA

AUTUMN | WEEK 10. A (LOVING) CUP FULL OF AUTUMN

AUTUMN | WEEK 11. LEAVES, BRANCHES, BERRIES AND BLOOMS

AUTUMN | WEEK 12. I’LL TAKE FLOWERS IN ANY FORM

AUTUMN | WEEK 13. CONIFERS, CONES AND HOTHOUSE LILIES

WINTER

WINTER | WEEK 1. ILEX BERRIES AND PAPER WHITES

WINTER | WEEK 2. THE ALLURE OF AMARYLLIS

WINTER | WEEK 3. FROSTY WHITE

WINTER | WEEK 4. WINTER’S MULTI-HUED PALETTE

WINTER | WEEK 5. A BLUE BOWL OF BLOOMS

WINTER | WEEK 6. A NEST FOR MY ORCHIDS

WINTER | WEEK 7. CALLAS AND CHERRY BRANCHES

WINTER | WEEK 8. A DISPLAY OF DAFFODILS

WINTER | WEEK 9. AMERICAN-GROWN ROSES FOR VALENTINE’S DAY

WINTER | WEEK 10. LILIES, TWO WAYS

WINTER | WEEK 11. JUST ADD LIME

WINTER | WEEK 12. HEADY HYACINTH

WINTER | WEEK 13. MAGNOLIAS AND MORE

DOING IT YOURSELF, WITH STYLE

Floral techniques, aesthetics, care, resources/supplies

EARTH-FRIENDLY FLORAL TECHNIQUES

Twigs

Chicken Wire

Flower Frogs

Other Techniques

A BOTANICAL RAINBOW

Glossary of color terms

HARVESTING AND POST-HARVEST CARE

RESOURCES AND SUPPLIES. VASES

FLOWERS

TOOLS

FLOWER FROGS

CUT FLOWER AND FOLIAGE INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FINAL THOUGHTS

Отрывок из книги

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Four Seasons of Locally Grown Bouquets from the Garden, Meadow and Farm

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So when editor Cathy Dees and publisher Paul Kelly and I got serious about finding a book title, Slow Flowers seemed like the “just-right” description of my one-year floral design experiment. Thanks to the culinary pioneers who popularized the Slow Food movement, it now seems like you can put “slow” in front of any term to convey a different philosophy or approach to that subject. When I say the phrase “slow flowers,” there are those who immediately understand it to mean: I have made a conscious choice.

My blooms, buds, leaves and vines are definitely in season; not, for example, grown and brought in from elsewhere in the world during the wet, cold winter months in my hometown of Seattle. So, come December and January, my commitment to sourcing locally-grown floral materials sends me to the conifer boughs, colored twigs and berry-producing evergreens – and the occasional greenhouse-grown rose, lily or tulip, just to satisfy my hunger for a bloom.

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