Stylish entertaining doesn’t require perfection. It’s not about flawlessly polished tableware or professionally arranged florals—it’s about the small, creative touches that make each event unique.

This uniquely informative entertaining/hosting guide combines stylishly practical advice along with gorgeous photos as well as personal essays & ideas from tastemaker, award-winning retailer, best-selling author and daily blogger Ted Kennedy Watson. Like a trusted friend, he invites you into his homes and shares his secrets honed over the years that are sure to bring you much success and as he would stress, happiness, as you host your next gatherings. Both inspiring and highly ‘doable’ his book is brimming with Ted’s trademark tips that is destined to become a classic. Whether starting out or a seasoned entertaining pro, his latest book is a treasure trove of ideas to help you up your game with loads of added style. With Ted as your cheerleader, you will learn tons of his tricks of the trade, that you can then put your own personal spin on to be a regaled host.

Grow your garden to fill your pantry with bottled fruit, fermented vegetables, and over forty varieties of preserved and dried homegrown food.

The Preserving Garden is a stylishly illustrated guide on how to create a garden that will provide food all year round. Featuring forty-three plant profiles with growing notes for starting or improving your garden, this book provides advice on where to begin, when to plant, and how to care for your garden.

Each plant profile is accompanied by easy-to-follow recipes that allow you to make the most of your homegrown produce throughout the year. Including scalable recipes and techniques for chutneys, relishes, jams, jellies, marmalades, bottling, and drying, preserve your garden bounty by pureeing tomatoes for sauces, fermenting your cabbage for sauerkraut, drying your cherries to use in muffins, and much more.

Growing a preserving garden is an investment in your food future. When you are using fruit or vegetables grown in your own yard you are reducing food miles, waste, and plastic use and reclaiming control over what goes into the food you eat. Offering a joyful reinterpretation of cooking illustration, this book is an inspiring and practical gift for the food enthusiast, whether they live in the northern or southern hemisphere.

From renowned gardening and flower expert Jac Semmler, Flower Power is a practical, step-by-step, and beautiful guide to planning and designing your garden.

A book for any gardener who wants to successfully grow flowers, this abundantly illustrated volume is the ultimate guide to flower-planting design and composition. Flower Power breaks down the processes, techniques, and thinking in planting design and garden-making, including a how-to on categorizing and understanding plants; a detailed guide to designing your garden considering color, composition, texture, and layers; and how to achieve your garden design with easy techniques, photography, and the proper tools. Fun charts and layouts showing color palettes, flowering calendars, planting forms, density, and distribution are also featured.

Flower Power will take your gardening to the next level, using up-to-the-minute international thinking in design translated into an accessible and immersive reference for anyone who wants to try something new in their garden. Critically praised garden designer and flower expert Jac Semmler provides readers with the know-how to bring together a successful and thriving garden.

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James T. Farmer III is the author many books celebrating garden living and entertaining including A Place to Call Home, A Time to Plant, A Time to Cook, A Time to Celebrate, Dinner on the Grounds, Sip & Savor and Wreaths for All Seasons. 

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In Daffodils: Beautiful Varieties for Home and Garden, leading garden writer Naomi Slade explores the intriguing history of the genus Narcissus along with its growing and care. Renowned floral photographer Georgianna Lane reveals the breadth of daffodil varieties in a range of breathtaking solid colors and multitoned and ruffled combinations of salmon, pink, peach, orange, and white.

Daffodils are easy to grow as garden plants or container specimens, and their bulbs multiply year after year. Indoors they add brightness and cheer as cut flowers in home arrangements, wedding bouquets, and even large-scale event decor. Plant bulbs fall through January if the soil is workable, for the most joyful spring blooms ever! Daffodils are a popular choice for bouquets, corsages, bridal bouquets, centerpieces, and forced-bloom gifts.

Gracing springtime flower beds and grassy meadows alike, these cheerful trumpet flowers are plants of poetic inspiration and mythic renown, rich with perfume and infused with optimism.

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