Monthly Archives: July 2012

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  Dried flower wedding bouquet

  Posted on July 31, 2012 by Ruth in Bouquets, Weddings

  Always happy to help with dried flowers Last week I was contacted by a lady called Claire who was planning her wedding, but had been let down by her florist. She had made her own dried lavender bouquets for her bridesmaids and asked her florist to produce something similar for her bridal bouquet. Unfortunately she [...]

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  My dried flower diaries July 2012

  Posted on July 30, 2012 by Ruth in Diary

  My dried flower garden in July Since my last monthly diary post, we actually had some hot weather – hooray! I have spent lots of time in the garden, but most of it soaking up sunshine rather than doing anything useful. Experimenting with dried flowers from my garden I was trained as a scientist, so [...]

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  Fragrant leaf potpourri recipe

  Posted on July 27, 2012 by Ruth in Potpourri making

  Potpourri recipe with scented leaves In my last two posts I have been drying leaves from my garden for use in potpourri and then adding essential oils to the potpourri for added fragrance. Here is the finished potpourri recipe. Choosing the leaves for this potpourri recipe This dried leaf potpourri is not as pretty as [...]

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  Fragrancing my dried leaf potpourri

  Posted on July 20, 2012 by Ruth in Aromatherapy, Potpourri making

  Using essential oils to fragrance potpourri Last week I made some potpourri using dried leaves from my garden. This week I am boosting the fragrance of the potpourri by adding essential oils. I had hoped that my combination of lemon balm leaves, peppermint and scented leaf pelargoniums might have enough scent to fragrance my sitting [...]

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  Dried leaves for use in potpourri

  Posted on July 11, 2012 by Ruth in Aromatherapy, How to dry flowers, Potpourri making

  Dried scented leaves make great homemade potpourri A couple of weeks ago I took my trusty basket into the garden and collected some scented leaves that I thought may be useful in potpourri making. Picking scented leaves for drying I found scented leaf pelargoniums, lemon balm and peppermint. Drying the leaves I put the basket [...]

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  Making dried rose petals and geranium flowers

  Posted on July 10, 2012 by Ruth in How to dry flowers

  Drying rose petals and geranium flowers from my garden After my previous post on drying whole roses, I thought I’d go outside and collect some more flowers to dry. I picked some stripey rosa mundi rose petals, some dark pink rose buds, and various hardy geranium flowers in shades of pink and purple. I threw [...]

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  Roses from my garden as dried flowers & petals

  Posted on July 6, 2012 by Ruth in Dried rose buds, Dried rose petals, How to dry flowers

  Dried flowers from roses and rose petals Rose season is in full bloom in my garden. This is my favourite time of year when everything looks blousy and verdant, before the untidy phase starts (or is that just my garden?). These rosa mundi roses must be just about my favourite plant because they are so [...]

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