Awards

• Winner of Frances Jones Poetker Award for Significant Contributions to Floral Design (One of the American Horticultural Society's 2020 Great American Gardeners National Awards) 2020 (United States)

Overview

Almost everyone does it: puts a little something on the windowsill to watch it ripen, root, or just sit there looking pretty. But the windowsill can serve as a stage for more intentional arrangements a personal, free-wheeling kind of art...a catalyst for creativity. Author Nancy Ross Hugo demonstrates how to use the windowsill as a platform for small, simple displays that celebrate the seasons and reflect the personal style of their creators. Her fresh approach uses bottles, jars and other small vases to showcase arrangements of locally collected leaves, seedpods, flowers, fruits and twigs. In Windowsill Art the reader will learn how to find and display materials, why some containers work better than others, how to combine materials and simple techniques to enhance creative possibilities. Beautiful full-color photographs throughout.

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Reviews

There is nothing formal or complicated; the designs are merely a slice of what is going on in the garden. In Windowsill Art, Hugo shows us how to find and display these small delights for a unique and personal kind of art one that mirrors the rhythms of life around us.--Theresa Forte St. Catherines Standard

Windowsill Art is all about nature on the windowsill and here's the important part how to arrange it artfully. I've gotten inspiration and some great ideas from this little book.--Daricia McKnight A Charlotte Garden

Nancy Ross Hugo can take a tattered autumn leaf, prop it in a vanilla bottle, and suddenly the eye is filled with beauty we might otherwise have missed. And she make you realize you can do it, too. The best kind of book! - Phyllis Theroux, author of The Journal Keeper and California and Other States of Grace

Author Information

Nancy Ross Hugo has been writing, lecturing and teaching about trees, native plants and floral design for over thirty years. Her passion is celebrating the everyday plants and other growing things in our lives that we often overlook. She blogs about the ""windowsill arrangements"" she creates every day keeping her eyes open to all things wild and wonderful: windowsillarranging.blogspot.com. A resident of Ashland, Virginia, Nancy Ross Hugo is the author of the 2011 book ""Seeing Trees."" Her writing has appeared in Horticulture, Fine Gardening, American Forests, Country Journal, Virginia Living, and Country Life. She has been recognized for excellence in magazine and newspaper feature writing by the Garden Writers Association and by the Virginia Urban Forest Council.

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