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  Dried flowers from my garden | Photo shoot

  Posted on July 1, 2016 by Ruth in Growing dry flowers, How to dry flowers

  Picking garden flowers to dry I love drying flowers At this time of year when roses and peonies are in bloom, I love to visit the garden every day, enjoying their scent, and taking a small harvest. I always leave enough to enjoy in situ. Images courtesy Nicola Stocken. Save Find out more about drying […]

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  Homemade room fresheners using essential oils

  Posted on March 26, 2016 by Ruth in Aromatherapy, Potpourri making

  How to make a natural room freshener There are various natural ways to add fragrance to your home Choices for natural home fragrance may include a bouquet of fresh flowers or herbs, or a bowl of handmade dried flower potpourri refreshed with real essential oils. I thought I’d try experimenting with an alternative to the […]

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  How to make wet potpourri

  Posted on September 20, 2014 by Ruth in Potpourri making

  Making potpourri from flowers in my garden Herb Society article about rose petal potpourri It was great to be asked to write an article for the Herb Society magazine Herbs earlier this year. The article has just been published in the September issue. Preserve the fragrance of your Summer garden using this traditional potpourri making […]

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  Making a floral bath sachet with dried flowers

  Posted on January 13, 2014 by Ruth in Aromatherapy, Making bath products

  Soak in a bath of dried flower petals Brighten up your bathtime with the fragrance of flowers from your garden in this floral bath soak! Fill a pouch with bath goodies The bag you use for this make is quite important – it needs to be a quite open weave to allow the water to […]

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  Displaying my traditional potpourri

  Posted on October 22, 2013 by Ruth in Potpourri making

  Making traditional potpourri with dried petals Back in June I made some traditional potpourri using dried petals, orris root powder and essential oils when gardens photographer Nicola Stocken came to visit. I left it in a kilner jar in a warm place for the fragrance to develop, and (apart from shaking it a couple of […]

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  Why you don’t need orris root powder to make potpourri

  Posted on July 16, 2013 by Ruth in Potpourri making

  I sell a lot of orris root powder for potpourri making But why? Orris root powder is the dried powdered root of the flower iris pallida (sweet iris), and is used in potpourri making to prolong the fragrance. Orris root powder is a fixative Traditional potpourri is made by adding essential oils to dried flowers […]

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  Making potpourri in the press

  Posted on June 30, 2013 by Ruth in Potpourri making

  Photographing potpourri making I was really pleased to be visited by garden writer and photographer Nicola Stocken this week. She spent an afternoon with me potpourri making for an article she is writing. It will take a while for her to process the photos and finish the article, but she sent me one image as […]

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  Five uses for dried Chamomile flowers

  Posted on June 18, 2013 by Ruth in Aromatherapy

  Chamomile is a pretty daisy-like flower Chamomile is much-used in aromatherapy with properties similar to lavender. The flower is soothing to mind and body with an apple-like fragrance. Chamomile flowers growing in my garden We had a minor disaster a few months ago: flooding in our DaisyShop workshop. Of course we were insured, so it […]

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  Potpourri from dried flowers grown in your garden

  Posted on April 16, 2013 by Ruth in Potpourri making

  Dried flowers article in Make and Craft magazine This month I am very pleased to have another article about dried flowers published in Make and Craft magazine. This one is about picking flowers from your garden to dry and make potpourri. They have published a little early, as the two main flowers used were roses […]

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  Dried lavender crafts

  Posted on March 30, 2013 by Ruth in Lavender craft

  Dried lavender crafts in abundance! Dried lavender is such a versatile natural product that it is hard to write about dried flowers without mentioning it. Check out my blog post Ten uses for dried lavender, or below are a few more. Dried lavender in food In my opinion, dried lavender is best used in sweet […]

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