The Flower Book by Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) is a series of 38 round watercolours, each about six inches (15 centimetres) across, painted from 1882 to 1898. This handbook shows you how to plan a cutting garden, grow the perfect plants for the vase and nurture them so they thrive from season to season. Additional texts: Giovanni Aloi, Louise Bell, Lugene Bruno, Shane Connolly, Clare Coulson, Louisa Elderton, Celia Fisher, Diane Fortenberry, Victoria Gaiger, Daisy Helman, Pascale Heurtel, Lyndsey Ingram, Hans Walter Lack, Fred G. This book, adapted from our XL edition, gathers the finest engravings from Redouté’s most important works, including Selection of the Most Beautiful Blooms and Branches with the Finest Fruits. There she and her partner Ashley grow seasonal flowers that she arranges for weddings and special events.

Here the pair behind fashionable London florist JamJar Flowers sketch out the history of the pastime, provide inspirational ideas from JamJar's own commissions and offer an array of creative projects to try at home. They were painted for his private pleasure, many while he was resting at his summer home in Rottingdean, and were described by his wife as the "most soothing piece of work that he ever did". Visually stunning and astonishing in scope, Stephen Harris's The Beauty of the Flower is a history of botanical illustration that has all the makings of a classic reference text .The first 30 or so pages are “how to” then the rest of the book is divided by season, with in-depth flower profiles and more arrangements peppered through. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. Magazine, creator of the newspaper's lifestyle section Off Duty, editor-in-chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and founding editor of Domino. The art publisher Taschen reprinted the book in 1994 in a modern format without using the pochoir technique.

But it remains ‘art with a scientific purpose: to record, display and convey scientific data about plants’, argues Stephen Harris, curator of Oxford University Herbaria, UK. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. Flower takes its readers on a different journey – but a voyage nonetheless – across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways artists and designers throughout history, from ancient Egypt to the modern day in New York, have depicted flowers and floral motifs. This book will help you explore one of the riches of the European countryside - its wonderful heritage of wildflowers.A perfect gift for anyone who loves flowers, The Flower Book celebrates all the wonderful qualities of flowers--their sheer beauty, infinite variety, and power to evoke admiration--bloom by exquisite bloom. Burne-Jones collected folknames of flowers from many sources, but the greatest number were provided by Eleanor Leighton, Lady Leighton Warren, who shared her "knowledge of the names and legends belonging to flowers". We are fortunate that he has chosen to share his lifelong interest in botany, and its interpretation, with this book, which specialists and non-specialists alike will enjoy. It tells not only the story of how to press flowers, but it is full of the most wonderful tales of nature and myth and magic and all of the things that make an English flower garden so precious that we want to pick and press the flowers in the first place … punctuated with practical ideas'.

His books include Sunflowers (Reaktion, 2018) and Roots to Seeds: 400 Years of Oxford Botany (2021). Harris is an Associate Professor of Plant Sciences and curator of the herbarium at the University of Oxford. This much-anticipated book celebrates our 30 favourite flowers, travelling through the four seasons of your garden from the first snowdrop shoots pushing through the frost, to the delicate and intricate petals of the alstroemeria and onto the fantastical displays of the dahlia. Based on Lindsey Taylor's popular Wall Street Journal column, Flower School, on its surface this book demonstrates how Taylor creates stunning but achievable floral arrangements inspired by works of art. Riffing on works by a diversity of artists across mediums, periods, and styles, including Alice Neel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julie Mehretu, Sheila Hicks, Willem de Kooning, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frank Stella, Salman Toor, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Kerry James Marshall, among many others, Taylor inspires readers to interpret the palettes, compositions, brushstrokes, and mood of the art in flowers, and shares florists' trade secrets for building beautiful arrangements.Our collection showcases classic fairy tales, children’s stories, and the work of some of the most celebrated artists, illustrators and authors. A new book from Phaidon examines [flowers'] rich symbolism, drawing on lush, visually striking images from several centuries of creative practice.

Reproductions of centuries-old botanical illustrations frequently adorn greetings cards, pottery and advertising, to promote heritage or generate income, yet their art is scientific: its purpose is to record, display and transmit scientific data. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions.A sumptuous exploration of how blossoms and floral motifs have been used in various art forms throughout history. Published by Doring Kindersley, this book celebrates the loveliest flowers for the home, with beautiful close-up photography that reveals the flowers’ intricate colours, shapes, and textures. I find a lot of flower arrangements can look stiff and formal but Rachel’s designs are natural and the flowers look comfortable. Her vintage-style flower arrangements are inspired by her love of the English country garden and the hedgerows around us in Oxfordshire.