I had a go at drying some cornflower stems in my workshop this summer They were all a lovely intense uniform royal blue when I hung them up to dry, but the results were very mixed! Some of the dried cornflowers colour stayed true, some faded to a pretty pale blue, and some cornflower petals…
Category: Dried bunches
Drying and using bunches of flowers
Drying Sea Lavender in the Workshop
Sea lavender is hardly changed by drying This summer I hung up some sea lavender (limonium) stems to dry in our workshop. I chose them to dry because I had heard they were easy, and seen some wedding bouquets with sea lavender this year. It turns out you can hardly tell the difference between the…
Dried flowers diaries Aug 2012
Dried flowers in holiday season Like many Brits, I have been away for a couple of weeks this month. But I did do some work honest! The versatility of dried flowers for weddings and elsewhere About a month ago I was approached to put a mixed dried flower wedding bouquet together for a bride who…
Dried flower wedding bouquet
Always happy to help with dried flowers Last week I was contacted by a lady called Claire who was planning her wedding, but had been let down by her florist. She had made her own dried lavender bouquets for her bridesmaids and asked her florist to produce something similar for her bridal bouquet. Unfortunately she…
Growing my own dried flowers – Nigella seed heads
Nigella growing in my garden is gorgeous – their seed heads will make lovely dried flowers too The nigella (Love-in-a-mist) is another flower in my garden that grows without me having to plant it. My flowers come in a range of blues from indigo to sky. The formation of the flowers looks so exotic, you…