Windowsill Art
Creating One-of-a-Kind Natural Arrangements to Celebrate the Seasons
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.
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.
