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  From A Colonial Garden:
Ideas, Decorations, Recipes
By Susan Hight Rountree
Price: $26.95
Colonial Williamsburg's renowned gardens have always played a major role in the life of the town. Their beauty and bounty inspired this clearly written and illustrated entertaining and decorating guide. Author Susan Hight Rountree's latest work follows the best-seller tradition of her two earlier books, Christmas Decorations from Williamsburg and Entertaining Ideas from Williamsburg, published by The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Using the beauty and bounty of Colonial Williamsburg's renowned gardens as inspiration, Rountree harvests a wealth of clearly written and illustrated entertaining and decorating how-tos and recipes appropriate for any season of the year.
From a Colonial Garden includes seasonal garden projects that suggest myriad ways to use flowers, fruits, herbs, and foliage, including a spring colonial garden for a mantel or a summer berry topiary. Autumn brings a harvest brunch to the table and a pumpkin snowman to delight Halloween trick-or-treaters. Celebrate the holidays with a selection of five themed special trees or create unusual wreaths, swags, and cones.
Rountree also explores new ways to use the tried-and-true holiday floral forms any time of the year. From a Colonial Garden offers year-round life to the traditional fruit cone, the very essence of a Williamsburg Christmas, with a fruit and berry garland or a summer centerpiece that brings fiery color to the table.
The volume features lush color photography by Tom Green, Colonial Williamsburg staff photographer and member of the Professional Photographers of America, and illustrations by Elizabeth Hundley Babb.
224 pages, hardcover, ISBN 0879352124, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2004.
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