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Even if your garden won't yield another fresh bouquet this year, you can continue to decorate your home - or dress your holiday table - with lively floral arrangements. In their new book, Faux Flowers , Country Living Contributing Editors Richard Kollath and Ed McCann share their secrets for creating silk flower arrangements that fool the eye, particularly by mimicking nature's imperfections. "Stems and petals that are perfectly, uniformly smoothed, opened, and otherwise tweaked look unnatural," they write. In the arrangement shown here, Kollath manipulated the tulip petals so that some are closed and others fully open. Other tricks include trimming leaves and petals with clippers to create asymmetry and mixing in dried natural materials like yarrow, millet, or wheat into a silk arrangement for a more organic touch. - Country Living
