Easy Ways To Dry Flowers
Birds & Blooms|August/September 2019

Create everlasting bouquets and decorations by preserving summer blooms.

Sally Roth
Easy Ways To Dry Flowers

Drying flowers is easy—it’s remembering to actually cut them that is a challenge. Just before your favorite flowers reach their peak, think about how you might use a dried version of them, whether it’s for classic indoor wreaths and arrangements or a decoration on your favorite straw hat.

Pick flowers for drying in the early afternoon on a sunny day, when their water content is lowest. Collect blossoms right at their peak—any older and the petals may drop as they dry—and play around with these simple drying methods.

FORGET THE WATER

This story is from the August/September 2019 edition of Birds & Blooms.

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