The Floral Artist's Guide:: A Reference to Cut Flowers and Foliages

Book Description
This comprehensive resource serves as a pictorial guide to over 500 different types of cut flowers, foliage, and dried materials for all levels of floral designers. It offers a complete guide to the botanical and common names, pronunciation, family name and related flowers, colors and availability, and the unique properties of each flower. This valuable guide includes information from such sources as the Holland Flower Council, California Cut Flower Commission, and the Society of American Florists. This beautiful full-color flower guide will inspire creativity in all designers who use flowers as a medium. ALSO AVAILABLE - INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENT: Image Library (ISBN# 0-7668-1573-0). Call Customer Support to Order.


About the Author
Pat Diehl Scace is an experienced freelance floral designer as well as a teacher. She was the Exhibit Designer for the Missouri Botanical Garden and has been a designer for the State Florist Associations and Wholesalers. She has lectured to state garden clubs, taught advanced design courses, and has trained retail flower shop employees.


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A guide to the cut flowers and foliage commonly used in the floral art trade, with some less common materials included. Each entry includes a very decent color photograph with the botanical and common names, pronunciation, family, availability in the trade, color, unique characteristics, design applications, and longevity in arrangements. Includes several introductory pages of tips for care and handling and basic design issues. The CD-ROM follows the format of the book with 507 browsable color images. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


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