We love Escape to the Chateau! It’s a great show on Channel 4 in which Dick and Angel Strawbridge buy and do up a French chateau. Series one covered the basic renovations of the chateau and series two, in which the couple start to earn an income from their investment, has just aired. Dick and…
Category: Dried flowers general
Other dried flowers posts.
Photo shoot with dried flowers
A kitchen full of dried flower bunches I had a fun time in my kitchen the other week when photographer Thomas Skovsende came to take some pics for an article in Prima magazine. The article was written by Eimear O’Hagan for a series called “Ladies who Launch” and she did a great job of extracting all…
Lavender and love – growing up with dried flowers
The perils of growing up with a dried flower shop Teenager Rowan finds he has his own unique fragrance that is inextricably linked with the scent of lavender “You’d think growing up with your parents running a dried flower shop wouldn’t really have an effect on you, that they’d keep business life and home life…
Orange dried flowers | Leonotis Leonurus
Exotic orange dried flowers of Leonotis leonorus Although there is a growing range of dried flowers available in the UK, the choice of natural orange dried flowers is limited. One option is physalis (also known as Chinese lanterns), which is seasonal and associated with Autumn (and to be honest, a seed pod rather than a flower)….
Pressed flowers inspiration and ideas
Pressed flower projects I’ve just been putting together a greetings card as a pressed flower project for the Herb Society magazine, and it made me think about all the great ideas out there at the moment. A pressed flower book to inspire My favourite pressed flowers book is L’herbier du jardin by Jean-Luc Breuvart (it’s…