A Passion for Flowers: a Celebration of a Cottage Garden, with Inspirational Ideas Using Fresh, Dried and Prssed Flowers by Penny Black - 1992

London: Ebury Press, 1992. Binding is dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine; bumping to base of spine.144 pages including the index. Minor creasing to base of spine of dj, otherwise fine. A Passion for Flowers describes Penny Black's love for her garden. It tells of her deep knowledge and understanding of the history of her plants, and talks of the enormous pleasure of her plants, and talks of the enormous pleasure and inspiration Penny has derived from her surroundings in Cornwall, one of the most romantic areas of Britain. A Passion for Flowers is also a celebration of Penny Black's work, containing over 40 beautiful and innovative ideas for using fresh, dried and pressed flowers. Many of the pressed dried flower pictures for which Penny is renowned are included: a seaweed-decorated vase of spring flowers using hellabores and kingcups; a golden posy of autumnal herbs, seedheads and wild flowers; a wintry circular collage of tiny rosebuds. Then there are pot pourris - for spring, a cauldron filled with mauve flowers including statice and bluebells; for summer, a wickerwork table covered with roses; for sutumn, a basket of sunset-coloured pumpkins and knobbled gourds spiced with cinamon sticks and pine-scented fir cones; and for winter, tiny boxes filled with a creamy-brown mix scented with jasmine and vanilla. Containers filled with armfuls of bluebells and anemones; a bouquet of wild hops and seedheads; a ewer of black-whiskered barley and orange Chinese lanterns - these are just a few of the delightful fresh flower arrangements that have been created by Penny, but can be made for your own home. Here is a book to savour and enjoy - a delight for any flower lover.. First. Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good Plus. Illus. by Photographs: Jacqui Hurst. 11 1/2" x 9". Arts and Crafts.