Here are a few quick tips on selecting the right flowers for drying!

1 - Select flowers that are in their prime. IE: if you are drying celosias select plumes that still have bright and vivid colours. Stay away from blooms that have started to brown. For strawflowers cut before blooms are fully open.

2 - Make sure flowers are well watered and not wilting. Cut either mid morning or in the evening.

3 - Do not use flowers that are wet. If you must cut in the morning wait untill the dew is dry.

4 - Tie flower stems together in bunches and hang up-side down in a cool, airy and dark place out of direct sun.

5 - To keep your dried flowers looking their best display them in a place out of direct sun which will cause the blooms to fade.



If you have any other tips please feel free to post them!

This is an ongoing dried arrangement I made years ago. Each year I add at least one flower from my gardens. It started with flowers that the kids would get me for Mom's day and has just progressed.


I can't find the photo right now, but when our daughter's best friend's husband died unexpectedly, I collected flowers from all of the many arrangements and Steve made a wooden ladder with old barnwood and I placed small swags all over the rungs. She still has it standing in the corner of her living room.

Thats really nice Candee, I like the idea of adding to the swag each year. Also the ladder is a really nice idea to remember a loved one.

Candee - What a wonderful idea to do that. Usually flowers after a funeral are long forgotten, but that is a great reminder of all those that loved the deceased!

Thank you both. I come up with a good idea every once in a while!

I stared drying the first flowers of the season a few days ago, White Strawflowers, Hyssop, Scabiosa seedheads. Thats just the start, I'll keep harvesting till frost. The love-lies-bleeding is in full bloom now too........but I can't cut that one yet....its too pretty!

Please post photos of them hanging.