Experiments with drying flowers
Looking back on a colourful summer:
Drying flowers at home
All these flowers were dried using one of two methods:
- Air-dried flat: just cut the flower heads off and lay the flowers face down on kitchen roll in a warm, dark, dry place for a week or so until crisp.
- Hanging bunches: to dry the whole flower on its stem, bunch a few stems together with an elastic band, then hang upside down in a warm, dry, dark place for a week or more.
Read more about how to dry flowers
Trialling dried flowers for daisyshop.co.uk
Some of these dried flowers have made it onto sale in our shop, or will soon:
- Watch out for the marguerite daisies in an exclusive limited availability confetti mix coming soon!
- Small roses, dried rose petals and peony petals make it into our own British confetti from time to time.
- Larger roses such as the Rosa mundi are often used to decorate our English Rose potpourri.
- We sold all the eryngium bunches I dried this year, but look out for more next summer.
- The pink achillea bunches were a little faded looking once dry, but the yellow ones we buy in for the shop are great!
- Watch out for dried ammobium bunches coming soon!
Looking forward to more experiments in drying flowers next year.