Flower Philosophy: Seasonal projects to inspire & restore

by Anna Potter, India Hobson (Photographer)

Overview

A celebration of season, Flower Philosophy presents a selection of beautiful arrangements designed to free readers from the pressures of perfection and instead encourage creative freedom, intuition and original results.
 
Flowers are not perfect, and flower arranging shouldn’t be either. Anna Potter, author of best-selling Flower Fix, teaches us how to listen and learn from nature to create something truly original with 25 combinations of stems and foliage. Free yourself from a prescriptive, one- size-fits-all approach and let each unique bloom inspire you with this refreshingly honest and liberating florist’s guide.

Featuring:

• A NEW PERSPECTIVE: Start with nature and let this inform your arranging
• A WEALTH OF PRACTICAL ADVICE: All the basic, essential information on flora, seasons, colour and arranging
• BUDGET-CONSCIOUS CHOICES: From small humble buds to large luxe flowers eg weed arrangements. Plus foliage, fruit, vegetables, sea shells and anything grown out of the ground.
• 25 FLEXIBLE FLOWER PROJECTS: Step-by-step, with options/prompts to encourage autonomy, originality, creativity
• PERSONAL TOUCHES: Author’s stories, poems, thoughts, experiences and musings
• FLORAL THERAPY: Tips to improve wellbeing with nature; tap into its mindful benefits throughout the arranging process
• A FLOWER THESAURUS: An unorthodox flower index of favourite and too-often-forgotten flowers, ideas for pairings, benefits to the senses and mood, meanings etc.

Arranged by season, Anna Potter guides you through the process of creating your own wreathes, bouquets and installations, all using flowers that can be bought, found and foraged from your neighbourhood.

Accompanied by stunning photography from India Hobson, this book provides the basic foundations to pick, choose and assemble with unlimited possibilities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780711268593
Publisher:	White Lion Publishing
Publication date:	02/07/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	27 MB
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About the Author

Anna Potter is the florist behind the flower shop Swallows and Damsons and author of Flower Fix (2019). Her style of arranging has a luxe and wild feel that uses containers of all sorts and moves beyond the confines of blooms in her decoration - incorporating foliage, fruit and vegetables, sea shells and most things that grow out of the ground. She is based in Sheffield and can be found online at @swallowsanddamsons on instagram.

India Hobson is a UK based editorial, lifestyle and still life photographer, and one half of Haarkon. Haarkon published their first book, Glasshouse Greenhouse, in 2018. India has enjoyed a creative partnership with Swallows & Damsons for a number of years, working with Anna Potter to develop their signature style.

Anna Potter is the florist behind the flower shop Swallows and Damsons and author of Flower Fix (2019). Her style of arranging has a luxe and wild feel that uses containers of all sorts and moves beyond the confines of blooms in her decoration - incorporating foliage, fruit and vegetables, sea shells and most things that grow out of the ground. She is based in Sheffield and can be found online at @swallowsanddamsons on instagram.
India Hobson is a UK based editorial, lifestyle and still life photographer, and one half of Haarkon. Haarkon published their first book, Glasshouse Greenhouse, in 2018. India has enjoyed a creative partnership with Swallows&Damsons for a number of years, working with Anna Potter to develop their signature style.

Editorial Reviews

10/17/2022

Florist Potter (Flower Fix) presents a wealth of tips for creating beautiful flower arrangements in this encouraging guide. Aiming to show “how working with flowers can also serve as meditation, ritual and art,” the author urges readers to use seasonal, locally grown flowers. Twenty-five projects come arranged by season: a wild-spirited tulip arrangement with garden roses and ranunculus is a fitting celebration for spring, while summer sees a “sunburst mandala” composed of seasonal petals and leaves. For autumn, a withered arrangement of hawthorn, snowberry, and “‘past-it’ blooms signals one last heroic hurrah for the things much loved about to be lost.” The winter season uses “fruiting branches, berries and funghi” to create a mushroom altar and a solstice crown. Each project includes stunning photography and detailed, step-by-step instructions with creative options for variants (the Beltane’s Blessing project, for example, has instructions for both a tablescape and a hand-tied bouquet). Newbies will also find guides to basic arrangement methods and choosing and buying flowers, as well as a list of required tools (chicken wire and strong scissors are must-haves). A helpful flower thesaurus provides further notes on pairings, seasonal availability, and vase life. Budding florists need look no further. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

"Beautifully, profusely, and informatively illustrated...Will enable even the most novice of floral arrangers to provide professional quality flower arrangements for all occasions. Inspiring."—Midwest Book Review

"Gorgeous writing about the solace of returning to the wild, the gifts that come with close observation and the wisdom of bending our lives further toward the seasons...The beauty of this book earned my attention."

—BookPage Starred Review

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