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15 great books and photo CD’s created specifically for florists |
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Flower Arranging: Step-by-Step Instructions for Everyday
Designs
Florists Review. Advance your basic skills or offer
valuable training to apprentice designers with our
latest volume, which is filled with techniques and
how-to's to inspire you and help you excel at the art of
flower arranging. Industry veteran Teresa P. Lanker, who
for more than 20 years has taught floral design and
marketing at The Ohio State University Agricultural
Technical Institute, shares her expertise as author of
this definitive guide. The design methods featured have
proven especially successful among floral design
students with little or no expertise. Flower recipes and
step-by-step instructions walk you through the basics,
and variations show you how to expand on your knowledge
with more advanced designs. We've also included entire
chapters on proper packaging of flowers, working with
balloons and creating a perfect commercial display. A
comprehensive flower glossary and care and handling
appendix help you choose and condition flowers for
optimal use. With more than 500 photos, this book leads
you through every step in the process with
easy-to-follow how-to's. Learn the tips and tricks of
the floral trade, and master the fundamentals of floral
design, all while working through the lessons at your
own pace. Softcover. 160 pages.
$29.95 / ea |
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Winning
Bouquet Combinations
Florists' Review. Helping the professional florists
formulate the perfect recipe for a wedding bouquet is
the goal of this book. The 77 winning bouquets featured
beautifully illustrate the endless options that are
available to today's bridal parties. Organized by color,
each bouquet is accompanied by individual photographs of
the flowers used. Design tips for many of the featured
bouquets are included in the flower identification pages
and make replication easy. In addition, glossaries
conveniently organize flowers by color and season so you
can check availability and find appropriate
substitutions. Hardcover. 192 pages. 77 bouquets. More
than 400 flower variety photos.
$34.95 / ea |
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101 Great
Displays
Florists' Review. Nothing can replace the impact of a
head-turning display to attract and excite customers.
That's why Florists' Review has collected 101 of our
favorite window and showroom ideas in this
easy-to-reference, sales-boosting book. From Valentine's
Day to Christmas and all the seasons and holidays in
between, 101 Great Displays has affordable and
easy-to-make projects that will have your customers
inspired to both send flowers and decorate for the
season. Sound helpful? Well, we've taken it one step
further by including coordinated arrangements that will
carry your displays through to in-store specials that
reflect the spirit of the displays. This handy
compendium is a merchandizing planner that will help
create effective displays all year long. Softcover. 208
pages. How-to's included for many projects.
$24.95 / ea |
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101 How-to
Favorites
Florists' Review. Overwhelmingly, our readers prefer the
“How To” department to any other. That is why we
compiled our favorite how-to's in a handy book. Perfect
for the novice designer as a learning tool and the
experienced designer as a daily source of inspiration,
this is the one book that should be on the shelf in
every florist’s workroom. With its easy-to-understand,
three-step instructions, this is an affordable reference
that you will use every day. 101 how-to projects.
Softcover. 208 pages. More than 400 color photos.
$24.95 / ea |
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101 Silk &
Dried Designs
Florists' Review has collaborated with Knud Nielsen
Company, supplier of fine dried materials, and Sullivans,
supplier of realistic permanents, to create the newest
how-to book in our collection! Like our other popular
how-to books, 101 Silk and Dried Designs provides a
range of traditional and contemporary arrangements in an
easy-to-follow, three-step format. American designers
Marc Bass, AIFD; Paula DeClerk; and Perry Walston, AIFD
contributed to make this our best design book yet!
Softcover. 208 pages. More than 101 full-color photos.
$24.95 / ea |
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101
Wedding Bouquets
Florists’ Review, in a
combined effort with the California Cut Flower
Commission, has merged our readers’ favorite things–
beautiful wedding bouquets, easy-to-read how-to’s, and
premium flowers grown in California. Each of these
practical and inventive bouquets was created especially
for this new book. All 101-bouquet projects are
photographed in full color and shown full page, with a
complete materials listing and an easy-to-understand
three-step how-to conveniently located opposite each
bouquet. This affordable addition to your wedding
library is sure to become your most valuable wedding
sales and design tool. 101 how-to projects. Softcover.
More than 200 full-color photos.
$24.95 / ea |
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Professional Floral Images for Print and Web Marketing
Florists’
Review is sharing its extensive library of beautiful
floral images. Perfectly suited for website and print
projects, these images are delivered to you in both a
high-resolution format, for excellent print results, and
a low-resolution format, for efficient internet
adaptation. 50 images on each!
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Christmas Designs
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Designs for Everyday
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Flower Romance
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Wedding Bouquets
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Valentine’s Day Designs
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Sympathy Designs
$39.95 / ea |
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Christmas
Traditions
Florists' Revew. Everyone loves Christmastime, with its
endless opportunities for decorating with garlands,
wreaths, candles, and centerpieces, all enhanced by
fragrant combinations of flowers, evergreens, fruits,
and spices. To create this useful book, we have
collected ideas and images that celebrate the many color
stories, personalities, and themes that enhance this
much-loved celebration. Every florist will find a wealth
of ideas in this picture-packed book - decorations,
designs, tips, techniques, and 38 step-by-step how-to's
that enable each project to be easily and professionally
reproduced. Softcover. 224 pages. 228 full-color photos.
$29.95 / ea |
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Design
School
Florists' Review. Whether you are an experienced veteran
of the design room or are new to the world of floral
design, maybe it's time for a refresher course. The
editors of Florist's Review have compiled the latest
information on all the design styles, principles,
elements, periods, and techniques in one affordable
handbook. Each concept and technique is illustrated with
an up-to-date design, so the rules and theories come to
life right before the readers' eyes with the
easy-to-understand explanations of each concept clearly
and conveniently presented. Educational materials are
always popular in the design room, so why not buy two or
three, and let the whole staff brush up on the basics.
Softcover. 80 pages. More than 90 full-color
photographs.
$14.99 / ea |
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Weddings 2
Florists' Review. Because our readers ask for more,
Florists' Review is proud to relese our third book
devoted entirely to wedding florals. Weddings 2 is
different from our popular 101 Wedding Bouquets and
styled more like our original hardcover Weddings book.
You are certain to be inspired by the up-to-date
bouquets for the bridal party, clever centerpiece ideas,
detailed boutonnieres, and luscious floral-adorned
cakes. With designs organized in color groupings, this
new book is a useful sales tool for wedding consultants,
party planners, and floral designers. Brimming with
colorful photographs and filled with 35 step-by-step
how-to projects, Weddings 2 is an affordable and
indispensable addition to your wedding library.
Hardcover. 176 pages. More than 150 full-color photos.
$39.95 / ea |
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101 How-to
Favorites vol 2
Florists Review. Our readers loved 101 How-to Favorites,
our best-selling book to date. That's why we've decided
to publish a second volume that has all the same great
features including easy-to-understand three-step
instructions for each design. Chapters on vase
arrangements, leaf tricks, topiaries, weddign designs
and more make this volume an indispensable addition to
every florist's workroom. Complete your library today!
101 how-to projects. More than 400 color design and
how-to photos. Softcover. 208 pages.
$24.95 / ea |
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We've Got You Covered In Flowers!
...and now a word from our sponsor

Hello and thank you for visiting our website. Beth and I
hope you find it enlightening, as well as fun, and remember, flowers are not only our job,
they're a part of our lives.
Larry Lucas, President, Flowers Central
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