Hanging up fresh flowers to dry I love this time of year when there is so much floral abundance! I’m really lucky to be able to rent a large workshop with a really high ceiling to hang flowers from. It has a metal roll door which is great for drying flowers as it acts like…
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Tiny dried flower bouquets
Making little dried flower gifts Using up floral odds and ends I had some bits and bobs and offcuts left over from various floristry projects. I absolutely hate throwing anything away so was looking for things to do with them and came up with two answers! Firstly I made anything with a stem up to…
Danish Dried Flower Style
Informal dried flower arrangements in Copenhagen It was a Big Birthday just before Christmas and Mike took me for a fab few days at the Christmas markets. I was quite surprised how many shops and department stores were using dried flowers to brighten their displays. All pics taken with my smartphone while I was out…
Drying flowers by hanging up in our workshop
Preserving flowers in Sussex Our Sussex workshop is not glamorous, being an old mechanics workshop, but it has character, being part of an old Victorian stable block. It has a hayloft, and even the original drainage channels in the floor. But best of all for us, it has plenty of beams for hanging up bunches…
Our dried flower bunches on TV – Escape to the Chateau
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…