Product Description

Let 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 eucalyptus

With 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #140723 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-20
• Released on: 2004-10-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages

About the Author
Jim McCann, the CEO of 1-800-Flowers, the nation's most prominent source of fresh-cut and seasonal flowers, brings over 25 years of success in flower-arranging to this book. He lives in Nassau County, Long Island.

Julie McCann-Mulligan is the creative consultant for 1-800-Flowers. She lives in Queens, New York.

Customer Reviews

Great Book ! Great Ideas !
Every page of this book has something in it either to learn about flowers or decorating with flowers. The craft ideas and the directions are easy to follow with professional results. I never knew Holiday decorating could be this easy and so decorative. I've started to make some projects to bring to friends houses instead of wine or dessert. Everyone is very impressed with the results. "Fun" book !

A Perfect Gift
I purchased this book for my mother for Mother's Day. She also received another book on arranging flowers. We compared the two and agreed that this book was much better. The pictures are wonderful to use as an example of what the arrangement should look like, the list of necessary tools and flowers is easy to understand and best of all, anyone can make these arrangements. My mother has made two of the arrangements as gifts and both times they were the hit of the party. I would highly recomnmend this book.