How to make a framed pressed flowers picture This year I’ve been pressing larger flower specimens. It’s time to put them in a frame. The great thing about having had a dried flowers workshop for twenty years is that I can just wander in and find something suitable! I found some modern box frames and…
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DIY Christmas potpourri ideas made from natural botanicals
Five DIY Christmas potpourri ideas made using natural fruit and spices Bring the scent of Christmas into your home this season! I’m all for natural botanicals, so here are five ideas for a Christmas scented home with a natural twist. You can buy everything you need from daisyshop.co.uk – just follow the link below! Decorate…
Natural moth repellents
Using Lavender and Cedar as natural moth repellents for clothes moths I wrote a couple of posts back in 2012 about battling clothes moths and they’re still some of my most popular articles. They’re persistent little critters! What is a clothes moth? The scientific name of the most common UK clothes moth is Tineola bisselliella….
Pressed flowers as herbarium specimens
A herbarium is a collection of labelled dried plant material UK botanists and other scientists have historically collected plant specimens from around the world to catalogue and research back on their home territory. Herbaria boomed in Victorian times when explorers and plant collectors were constantly finding new species of interest. Not every plant could be…
Great hen party idea – Make a dried flower crown
DIY flower crowns as a hen party activity When Katie got in touch via daisyshop.co.uk for some dried flower bunches for her friend’s hen do, she explained they were going to make flower crowns and I thought “what a great idea”! I think the best hen party activities involve being able to plan and source…