Southern Bouquets

by Melissa Bigner

Overview

The bouquets that grac e the dining rooms and parlors of stately Southern homes are beautiful and elegant, but they need not be complicated or expensive. Bigner and Barrie celebrate favorite home-grown flowers in unique bouquets,

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781423616696
Publisher:	Smith, Gibbs Publisher
Publication date:	04/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	41 MB
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About the Author

Melissa Bigner is a senior editor at Charleston Home. She has worked for Southern Living and Southern Accents, Better Homes & Gardens Decorating, Coastal Living, Home, Cottage Living, and Charleston Magazine. She has also authored books for Better Homes & Gardens, HGTV, and TLC. She produces and edits Charleston Weddings, a biannual magazine, and lives in Charleston.

Heather Barrie, owner of Charleston, South Carolina's Gathering Floral+Event Design, is in demand year-round. Her work has appeared in Charleston Weddings, Elegant Bride, Inside Weddings, Modern Bride, and Wedding Style magazines.

Read an Excerpt

SOUTHERN STORY: A CARE PACKAGE

Back in the 1940s, Eleanor Ilderton was the first of her family’s generation to leave Charleston, South Carolina’s Lowcountry when she married and moved to High Point, North Carolina. And though her new city was a mere state away, it was a world apart from Eleanor’s childhood haunts, such as Fenwick Hall Plantation, where she used to visit her Aunt Nellie. A sprawling estate on a sea island, Fenwick Hall was known for its prolific spread of live oaks and sea of lush camellias; by comparison, Eleanor’s fi rst Tarheel garden inevitably came up short.

Table of Contents

8 INTRODUCTION

14 CAMELLIAS

26 DAFFODILS

38 AZALEAS

50 ROSES

62 HYDRANGEAS

76 ZINNIAS

88 SUNFLOWERS

100 GREENS

112 ARRANGING

124 RESOURCES

128 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Editorial Reviews

Finally, a flower-arranging guide that gets it right. In Southern Bouquets, Charleston Stylists Melissa Bigner and Heather Barrie bypass the usual fussy centerpieces in favor of loose, natural-looking displays that mere mortals can actually replicate. … Plus, Bigner and Barrie start from the ground up, offering growing tips for all the blooms featured.

From the Publisher

Finally, a flower-arranging guide that gets it right. In Southern Bouquets, Charleston Stylists Melissa Bigner and Heather Barrie bypass the usual fussy centerpieces in favor of loose, natural-looking displays that mere mortals can actually replicate. … Plus, Bigner and Barrie start from the ground up, offering growing tips for all the blooms featured.

Country Living

Finally, a flower-arranging guide that gets it right. In Southern Bouquets, Charleston Stylists Melissa Bigner and Heather Barrie bypass the usual fussy centerpieces in favor of loose, natural-looking displays that mere mortals can actually replicate. … Plus, Bigner and Barrie start from the ground up, offering growing tips for all the blooms featured.

Country Living

Beyond flower arranging instructions, Bigner (senior editor, Charleston Homes) supplies information, tips, and trivia with a Southern perspective for each of seven types of flowers, e.g., roses, camellias, and hydrangeas, as well as greens. Barrie, owner of Gathering: Floral+Event Design in Charleston, SC, created the stunning bouquets, inspiringly photographed by Edwards, from freshly cut blooms. This book is not just for Southern readers, as the profiled flowers can be grown in many areas of the United States.

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