Variations in shade and texture For this DIY bouquet I combined five types of dried flower: Lagurus grass dyed crimson red Amaranth flower in natural burgundy Pussy willow stems from my own workshop Miscanthus grass, natural and fluffy Poppy seed pods I built up the bouquet by adding a few stems at a time of…
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Dried flower diaries September 2012
Dried flower news – Autumn begins Gosh what a month – we’ve gone from hot sun to hammering rain. This is a really big month in the shop because we are receiving into stock all the Christmas fruits & spices, pine cones etc – the crafters we supply always like to start their projects in…
My Dried Flowers Diaries June 2012
Growing dried flowers in my garden I’ve been reading a fabulous book by Nick Weston called Tree House Diaries in which he builds a tree house in the Sussex countryside and lives in it self-sufficiently for six months. The way it was written made me think that perhaps my dried flower blog would benefit from…
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…
Growing my own dried flowers – Poppy seed heads
Poppy seed heads growing in my garden will make lovely dried flowers I love the Oriental poppies in my June garden. I never planted them, they must have seeded themselves in from somewhere. Sometimes I pull them up if they germinate somewhere inconvenient – but usually I don’t have the heart. I love the way…