Festive Flowers

First published in 1997 and now available in paperback, Festive Flowers offers the reader a glimpse into the genius of Pryke's amazing arrangements. All celebrations–from weddings, to Christmas, to romantic events–call for flowers. Over sixty of Pryke's designs are photographed here. The flower arrangements take all forms: wreaths; table arrangements; corsages; garlands; and hanging bouquets that can be made at home with a minimum of skill. Twenty of these projects are detailed in a step-by-step format to allow anyone to recreate these designs while allowing for the addition of personal touches along the way. The author also provides tips and anecdotes gleaned from her vast experience.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pryke, Paula

Crafts & Hobbies

Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books

Master designer and author of over seven bestselling books, Paula Pryke shares her experience in planning floral displays and accents to set the tone for any event or special occasion. This book emphasizes wreaths and bouquets, but also includes other floral accessories that add a special decorative touch. From making grand statements with massed flowers to thoughtful touches like garlands for mantles or swags for banisters, Pryke covers all the details of decorating with flowers. She discusses both foam and wire-based wreaths, and explores the pros and cons of each depending upon the ornaments used and whether a wreath is meant to last a season rather than just an evening. Also included are centerpieces as well as small posies to be used with table settings. Signature concepts are explored, such as using unusual containers and unexpected accessories like candles. Pryke demystifies the technique of combining colors, textures, and architectural forms and discusses different types of flowers, foliage, and even fruit. Packed with ideas, skills, and techniques, this book is replete with inspiring yet achievable designs for both novices and seasoned floral artists alike.

Wreaths & Bouquets

Paula Pryke is acclaimed for creating innovative and bold floral designs for memorable events and special occasions. In her latest book, she demonstrates that the same ideas and techniques she uses for grand floral objets d’art can be applied to create easy, inexpensive, and modern floral arrangements to decorate the home. Aimed at people who are passionate about flowers, whether experts or novices, this book showcases inspirational designs to enhance and enrich the home each and every day. Pryke includes recommendations for flowers that suggest abundance but which have an extended vase life that saves both time and money. She also includes advice on having a cutting garden, which she sees as a natural extension of the revival of interest in growing edibles. With tips for selecting varieties in order to provide a constant supply of material for arrangements, Pryke also explores adapting foliage, branches, and other found materials to better link home and garden.

Everyday Flowers: Flowers to Beautify and Decorate the Home

Shows how to use candles in decorative arrangements with flowers and natural materials to create room decorations, centerpieces, scented displays, and holiday decorations

Candles: Home Decorating Workbooks with 20 Step-by-Step Projects on Fold-Out Pages

Potter Craft

Shows how to create a variety of wreaths featuring flowers, plants, driftwood, and branches, and includes ideas for room decorations and seasonal wreaths and garlands

Wreaths and Garlands (Home Decorating Workbooks)

Watson-Guptill Pubns

This book creates a whole new aesthetic for flowers. Paula Pryke breaks the mold of conventional flower arranging so successfully that this visionary collection of arrangements gives real meaning to the term floral art. Her originality, ingenuity and dramatic use of raw materials are key to the strong visual impact, vibrancy and always perfectly harmonious arrangements she creates. Stunningly photographed, the book is both a rich sourcebook of fresh and stylish ideas and a highly practical guide enabling the amateur to create dozens of artistic arrangements for every occasion. The multiplicity of flowers available today offers almost limitless scope for flower arrangers. Part of the book's novel approach is to encourage experimentation and innovation by showing how to mix some of the less familiar flowers now appearing on the market, with the more typical. How to create celebration arrangements for anniversaries, Christmas, the New Year, Easter, Hallowe'en, Mother's Day, weddings, birthdays and house warmings. Which containers to choose to complement arrangements: pottery, china, wood, basketry or metal, and how to make unusual natural containers from vegetables and foliage. How to arrange flowers according to particular color schemes, through the spectrum of reds, yellows and greens to blues, whites and mixed combinations. Selecting floral themes, whether formal or informal, period or modern, scented, edible or tropical. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs and an illustrated chapter on techniques show you how to achieve perfect results. A comprehensive gazetteer acts as a reference guide to over 300 flowers. In Flowers, Flowers!, the artistry and expertise of Paula Pryke's masterful flower arranging skills are now accessible for the first time, to capture the imagination, teach and inspire.

Flowers, Flowers!: Inspired Arrangements for All Occasions

Gardening & Landscape Design

Rizzoli

Features 21 favorite flowers: anemones, anthuriums, amarylis, arum lilies, carnations, chrysanthemums, daffodils, delphiniums, gerberas, heliconias, irises, lilies, orchids, peonies, poppies, proteas, ranunculus, sun-flowers, roses, sweet peas, tulips. Arrangements progress from strikingly simple displays based on one or two bunches of the same flowers to more ambitious creations drawing on a range of plant materials, fruits and vegetables. Reveals step-by-step the technical expertise behind 21 dazzling arrangements, including instructions for a striking floral 'tree', how to turn vegetables into stylish containers, and how to make a spectacular hanging ball.

Flair with Flowers

Every season calls for celebrations and gift-giving, and each occasion is personal and significant, from romantic events such as weddings and Valentine's day to Christmas and new-baby celebrations. In Festive Flowers the visionary floral artist Paula Pryke reveals her latest designs for marking these milestones with lush, beautiful flower arrangements. Over 60 arrangements are presented in full color, including both close-up details of the design and evocative shots of floral decorations at actual events. These are not just table arrangements, but also wreaths, corsages, garlands, and hanging bouquets that can be custom made for homes, rented halls, churches, or an outdoor wedding. Twenty projects are presented in step-by-step format to allow anyone to re-create these designs, adding personal touches along the way. Paula also provides anecdotes, tips and hints gleaned from her wealth of experience as a leading florist. Incorporating a wide range of elements such as seeds, fruit, candles, even jelly beans, Paula's novel ideas will always delight and surprise lucky recipients or guests. Festive Flowers will inspire decorators, brides-to-be, and party-givers of all types to new creativity with flowers.

Brimful of innovative, seductively easy designs, Simple Flowers is today's essential sourcebook of real flowers for real people-- from one of the most inventive and original personalities in the world of floral design. Simple Flowers is for people who are in tune with today's easy, uncluttered interiors and who want the flowers in their homes to complement that look to perfection. This is Paula Pryke's most personal book, presenting the type of arrangements she creates for her own home, in her own distinctive style that bridges the gap between floristry and art. Bursting with graphic, energetic designs, Simple Flowers proves that brilliant arrangements do not require elaborate techniques or expensive materials. Indeed, some of the most stunning designs use only a few stems of one type of flower. With over 200 glorious photographs, Paula Pryke gives the reader the inspiration to combine truly original choices of flowers and other materials in unusual shapes and colors with innovative and often unexpected containers. Every aspect of flower arranging is illustrated, from choosing a color- or season-related theme, through selecting or creating the perfect container, to making gift bouquets and more permanent displays with rooted plants. Guidelines to constructing the arrangements ensure success, from conception to successful placement. Seductive, striking simplicity is affordable and effortless with Simple Flowers.

Simple Flowers

Living Color taps into the current trend for using flowers not only for special occasions, but also as a key visual element in home decoration. An explosion of intense color mixes are accompanied by unique flower arranging recipes that include quantities as well as exact floral ingredients and methods needed to recreate the innovative floral bouquets for which Paula Pryke is internationally famous. Using teaching methods honed from the author's highly successful flower school, Living Color demonstrates, step-by-step, how to create the kind of professional flower arrangements to accessorize and transform your living space, infusing it with color and style. Beginners and amateurs alike can easily achieve the same polished creations that have made Paula Pryke Britain's leading floral artist in constant demand internationally by royalty, celebrities, presidents and heads of state. Following in the footsteps of her other successful flower arranging books (Festive Flowers, Flair with Flowers, Flowers, Flowers! and Simple Flowers), Living Color is the new addition to her definitive and expanding library of books to teach the creation of exceptional environments.

Living Color

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Festive Flowers

Wreaths & Bouquets

Everyday Flowers: Flowers to Beautify and Decorate the Home

Candles: Home Decorating Workbooks with 20 Step-by-Step Projects on Fold-Out Pages

Wreaths and Garlands (Home Decorating Workbooks)

Flowers, Flowers!: Inspired Arrangements for All Occasions

Flair with Flowers

Festive Flowers

Simple Flowers

Living Color