just the thing for the budding florist
Having just embarked upon a floristry course, I found this book most helpful giving details that I needed for a project that I couldnt find elsewhere. I also found the photography brilliant. My only criticism is that it could have given a few more visual tips on how to do the displays.
Harrisons Flowers [2000]
An implausible plot doesnt prevent Harrisons Flowers from being a harrowing and moving depiction of the cost of war. Andie MacDowell stars as Sarah Lloyd, the wife of a photojournalist reported lost in the 1991 civil war raging between ethnic divisions in the former Yugoslavia. Refusing to believe her husband is dead, Sarah flies to Austria and then drives into the heart of the war, where she teams up with other photographers (Adrien Brody and Brendan Gleeson), who help her find a small t..
In Vacuum Flowers - the title refers both to the genetically engineered blue flowers which grow in vacuum on the surface of asteroids and to the many societies which have flowered in various exotic habitats within the Solar System - someone is keen to retrieve the persona of Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark...
Although I am a great fan of S. Flowers (aka: Edred Thorsson), I was somewhat disappointed with this work. This was probably due to the publisher rather than its author. The book contains a large portion of Christianized "spells" which show what our ancestors were up against in fighting these un-bel..