2. The Flower Workshop: Lessons in Arranging Blooms, Branches, Fruits, and Foraged Materials
This beautifully illustrated guide to flower arranging from celebrated floral designer Arelia Chezar is as covetable as it is practical. With 50 stunning floral projects to choose from, it will take you every step of the way as you build up from simple arrangements to truly spectacular displays. It will also arm you with the necessary skills you’ll need to start experimenting with your own ideas.
The Flower Workshop: Lessons in Arranging Blooms, Branches, Fruits, and Foraged Materials, Arellia Chezar
3. Cooking with Flowers: Sweet and Savoury Recipes with Rose Petals, Lilacs, Lavender, and Other Edible Flowers
Brimming with over 100 edible flower recipes, this easy-to-use cookbook offers everything from sweet violet cupcakes, pansy petal pancakes, daylily cheesecake, and rosemary flower margaritas to savoury sunflower chickpea salad, chive blossom vinaigrette, herb flower pesto, and mango orchid sticky rice.
There are also a stack of useful tips for finding, cleaning, and preparing edible blossoms and a whole range of techniques. Learn how to infuse vinegars, vodkas, sugars, frostings, jellies and jams, ice creams (and more) with the colour and flavour of your favourite flowers.
Cooking with Flowers: Sweet and Savoury Recipes with Rose Petals, Lilacs, Lavender, and Other Edible Flowers, Miche Bacher
4. The Herb and Flower Cookbook: Plant, Grow and Eat, Pip McCormac
Choose from over 60 mouth-watering recipes, from simple midweek suppers (cheesy ham and chive shepherd’s pie) to delectable dinner party desserts raspberry, rose and mint tiramisu). There is also a simple yet practical growing guide that features over 30 herbs and edible flowers, with instructions specific to each one (when, where and how to plant, when to pick and what to plant it with). Our highlight? The flavour thesaurus, which suggests the foods each herb or flower works with, the taste, and how it should be eaten.
The Herb and Flower Cookbook: Plant, Grow and Eat, Pip McCormac
5. Styling Nature: A Masterful Approach to Floral Arrangements
Elegantly illustrated with Don Freeman's painterly photographs, flower designer Lewis Miller makes sense of the flower arranging process by breaking down each arrangement into: piece-color, composition, movement, shape and texture. The book contains other invaluable advice, including how to handle flowers and prolong the life of an arrangement.
Styling Nature: A Masterful Approach to Floral Arrangements, Lewis Miller & Don Freeman
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