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This is a season-by-season guide to creating dried-flower arrangements for the home. Its 20 projects - ranging from an Easter basket to a summer-hat wall-hanging, from a harvest corn arrangement to a Christmas garland - make it possible for the reader to create elegant and professional-looking arrangements for any situation. Detailed step-by-step instructions show how each project is put together, and a wealth of "tricks of the trade" include how to steam open tightly budded roses, lengthen stems and wire broken flower-heads. There is advice on picking, drying and storing plants from the garden, on how to group colours to achieve the best effects and on planning arrangements for particular areas of the home, such as an alcove, the top of a cupboard or a table centre.