cover image Plant Craft: 30 Projects That Add Natural Style to Your Home

Plant Craft: 30 Projects That Add Natural Style to Your Home

Caitlin Atkinson. Timber, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-60469-649-3

Horticultural expertise and an eye for interior design inform Atkinson’s 30 crafting projects, which integrate elements from nature with the balance and style of interior living space. Using plants such as bromeliads and mosses with accoutrements such as a hollowed tree trunk or driftwood, the book outlines how to create a stunning variety of interior accent pieces such as shadowboxes, centerpieces, and a bench planter. Each project includes detailed instructions, including a supply list and photographs demonstrating each step of production. The book further includes listings of indoor plants with specific guidance about how to cultivate and maintain them, including proper lighting, watering, and soil maintenance. These projects center around living matter, which means the creator must accept its “independent nature” and also, in some cases, its impermanence. This happy blending of nature’s gifts and interior design offers the creative crafter and indoor gardener a universe of ways to highlight the beauty of nature indoors. (Oct.)