A dried flower arranging garden may be old fashioned, but it is a beautiful way to grow your own craft materials and provide food and shelter for wildlife.
No two days are the same for floral artist Antonia de Vere, who, with her husband, comprise the creative duo Mark Antonia.
Globe amaranth is a tropical annual featuring clover-like flowers in a range of bright colors that bloom all summer long. Learn more now on Gardener's Path.
May it be the loving occasion of anniversary or the moment when you step ahead with your feelings on your hand in the form of flowers; flowers are always the
This stunning book, Everlastings: How to grow, harvest and create with dried flowers is a celebration of the life of flowers, showcasing the ethereal beauty of dried flowers. Author, Bex Part…
When the weather turns gray outside, add cheerful color to your winter décor with an easy-to-make DIY strawflower ornament.
Drying calendula is a great way to preserve the petals and flower heads. Learn how to dry calendula, and preserve your harvest for later use.
Fast-growing, Honesty (Lunaria annua) or Silver Dollar or Money Plant is a very interesting biennial with its heads of 4-petaled flowers, deep purple to white, blooming in mid-late spring to early summer. These are beautifully replaced in midsummer by translucent, round, flat seed pods looking like silvery coins!
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Follow this guide to allium varieties for some of the prettiest spring and summer flowers you'll want to add to your garden.
Save your garden's beauty by drying and preserving your flowers. Drying flowers is an easy way to extend your garden season. Here are some tips.
Inspiration for how to have an eco friendly wedding by using local wedding suppliers and focusing on quality over quantity without sacrificing style.
Learn how to easily harvest and dry flowers and herbs from your garden. (No fancy equipment needed!) Also included is a list of my favorite common flowers and herbs along with ideas for using them.
Come learn how to grow, harvest, dry, and use calendula: a beautiful and edible herb that attracts pollinators and has many medicinal uses!
Learn how to make potpourri with dried flowers and a few simple ingredients. This is a great way to preserve flowers as a DIY gift idea.
Popping up in the fall garden when most plants have finished blooming, award-winning Cyclamen hederifolium var. hederifolium f. albiflorum (Ivy-Leaved Cyclamen) is a tuberous perennial which creates a captivating sight when massed. Opening before or with the leaves, elegant nodding pure white flowers, 1 in. across (2.5 cm), with gracefully upswept petals rise above the foliage in late summer to mid-fall.
Designer Ignacio Canales Aracil created these fantastic sculptures by pressing and drying wildflowers collected from gardens and nurseries in the UK. The
Dried flower petals are a wonderful way to preserve the beauty of the garden year long and can be used to add colour and flair to home projects.
If you hate seeing your garden die at the end of the growing season, try learning how to dry lavender to preserve it all year. Here's how!
It's easy to harvest and dry your own lavender. This article explains how to cut and dry lavender, when to do it, and how to store it.
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Take your wedding blooms to new heights by opting for hanging flowers. We've got you covered on everything you'll need to know about this beautiful trend, from expert tips and inspirational ideas to an easy guide on how to create your own
How to dry and preserve flowers, leaves, stems, and pods from the ornamental garden to give you a treasure trove of beautiful dried plants to craft with.
Easy to make, these pretty crystallised flowers are perfect for decorating cakes and desserts. They keep well stored in an airtight container.
Learn how to dry flowers with air drying, silica gel, or even the microwave. These three methods to preserve flowers are great for wreaths, bouquets, and decorating projects.
The lavender looked so pretty this year. It is one of my favorite things to grow. Although I’ve had a few plants that didn’t make it, the ones I have now bloom well every year. I usually harvest it in early to mid-July. It certainly attracts the bumblebees! It is so fragrant when you walk by. There is something about lavender that makes it sooo romantic. I guess because of it’s French associations! Ooh la la! SOME of the bundles that I gathered to prepare for drying. I grab a bunch of lavender with my left hand and cut them to the desired length using herb shears with my right hand. I’ve found this way is easier to make bundles than cutting it all off a bush at once and having to pick it up. Now tie them with string, and hang them somewhere warm and dry. My potting bench is coming in handy already!!! Now it’s time to capture the fragrant buds to use in sachets. When they are somewhat brittle, you can remove the purple buds easily. Be careful…lavender can be messy and readily falls apart. After spending a lot of time at this task, the best way I have found to remove the fragrant pods from the stems is to place a bunch of lavender between the palms of your hands and rub your hands together as though you are trying to keep warm. This can be very time consuming depending on how much lavender you have. I compare it to shucking corn or stringing & breaking beans! The dried buds will fall right off. Be sure and have a container below to catch the fruits of your labor. I ended up with a decent amount of lavender harvested by “moi”. Not quite enough to fill my large French tian, but it will do. Do you know how much cut lavender it takes to get the small amount you see in the bowl? I now have a new appreciate for lavender farms. Can you smell it? Au Revoir, Kim
Drying flowers to enjoy them year-round is easy if you know a few tricks.
Remember pressing flowers in books? There is a better way! Use Borax to preserve flowers so they keep their shape and color.
Growing cosmos in pots is easy, and you'll be rewarded with plenty of flowers for cut or dried arrangements, or you can simply enjoy them in their pot. Read here to learn more about container-grown co
How to dry and preserve flowers, leaves, stems, and pods from the ornamental garden to give you a treasure trove of beautiful dried plants to craft with.
Bex from Botanical Tales has been growing and drying flowers for many years, in this blog post she shares the new things she has learnt this year and offers up tips on drying flowers.
For a lavender enthusiast and landscape designer, crafting a wild and beautiful garden in one of the country’s most inhospitable environments was an expression of letting go. Words: Cheree Morrison Photos: Rachael McKenna This article was originally published in the March/April 2018 issue of NZ Life & Leisure. The Central Otago sky is a watercolour backdrop – and the plant palette in Karen Rhind’s Bannockburn garden makes up the ‘brushes’ that wash it with delicate hues: the fragrant tips of green bushels dipped in lavender and violet; ticklish grasses in shades of blonde, and olive trees thick with bristles of
Rediscover the beauty of dried flowers. Learn tips for harvesting and drying strawflowers, statice, celosia, and other blooms from your garden.
Grow these perennials in a cutting garden so you'll always have something to snip for fresh bouquets.
the dried seedheads are beautiful.
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Enjoy your hydrangea flowers all year long! Here's the simple trick for how to dry hydrangeas so they keep their color.
A simple cold-process calendula soap recipe with dried flower petals and citrus essential oils. Includes full DIY instructions
Nasturtiums grow well in almost any type of well-draining soil. They can tolerate dry conditions and low fertility without damage, but the...
These low-lift plants provide stable attractions year after year!
Try your hand at flower pounding on paper - a truly easy and beautiful way to use flower pigment to make art. Plus! Adding paint to make it even better.
