Dried Flowers

I grew some beautiful statice flowers during the summer. They make great fresh flowers and they are also perfect to dry. Once you cut them when they are fully in bloom and hang upside down to dry, they will last for many months. Some might say forever! I think a few months until Spring flowers are out is plenty time. I found some grasses, as well as honesty seed heads, dried very well. As I look around me here, I have vases of dried seed heads, celosia, poppy seed heads and zinnias and amaranth.

I sourced some Irish grown eucalyptus, some of which I’m currently experimenting with, drying it with gylcerine which helps it keep its colour. I already have faded eucalyptus from last year here in a vase and the faded beauty really suits other dried blooms like hydrangeas and allium seed heads. I arranged a few drieds into bud vases that I was selling in the website and a few people asked about the blooms! So I tested posting a couple and they arrived in perfect condition so now sets of bud vases and dried flowers are available to order in the gift section.

I have already ordered new seeds for next year to increase production for dried flowers! I’m especially fond of grasses and the more structural type of flowers or seed heads so they are top of the list alongside statice.