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Keeping Flowers All Year Round can be a rewarding and inexpensive hobby. Imagine being able to make your own bouquets, wreaths and floral arrangements out of real flowers for yourself and for gift giving! Well you can with a little work and providing you grow some of the following flowers and grasses.
I have tried to compile a list of flowers, grasses and pods that would dry well, be readily accessible in your garden (perhaps) or found in a friend’s garden.
Once you become adept at drying flowers, friends will be bringing them to you by the armload. You may well be starting a cottage industry. However, I believe in “quid pro quo” and should they ask you to create one for them, do not have any qualms about charging them a modest fee or asking them to bring twice as much so you can make them one and keep one for your labor. That way you may be able to sell the other one or keep it for yourself.
Some Flowers that dry well.
Acroclinium, Swan River Everlasting
Baby's breath
Bachelor's button
Bells of Ireland
Cockscomb
Edelweiss
Globe amaranth
Larkspur
Scarlet sage and blue sage
Sea lavender
Statice
Strawflower
Xeranthemum, immortelle
Yarrow (yellow varieties best)
Grasses suitable for drying
Bristly foxtail,
Hare's-tail grass,
Fountain grass,
Pampas grass,
Eulalia grass,
Quaking grass,
Spike grass
Squirrel-tail grass.
Seed heads suitable for drying
Cat-tail,
Dock,
Honesty (Money Plant),
Iris,
Lily,
Milkweed,
Mullein,
Poppy,
Queen Anne's Lace,
Teasel
Flowers suitable for Pressing
Ageratum
Alyssum
Anemone
Azalea
Bleeding heart
Buttercup
Butterfly weed
Candytuft
Celosia, cockscomb
Chrysanthemum
Columbine
Cornflower, bachelor's button
Cosmos
Crocus
Daffodil
Daisy
Delphinium
Dutchman's breeches
Geranium
Golden red
Heath
Heather
Hydrangea
Johnny-jump-up
Larkspur
Lily-of-the-valley
Marigold
Nemesia
Pansy
Phlox
Primula
Queen Anne's lace
Rose
Salvia
Statice
Sweet pea
Verbena
Zinnia
Flowers suitable for Burying
Anemone
Aster
Baby's breath
Bachelor's button
Black-eyed Susan
Blue sage
Chrysanthemum
Daffodil
Dahlia
Daisy
Delphinium
Gloriosa daisy
Hyacinth
Larkspur
Lilac
Lily-of-the-valley
Marigold
Nierembergia
Pansy
Peony
Rose
Salvia
Scarlet sage
Snapdragon
Stock
Verbena
Zinnia
This is a satisfying and rewarding hobby and has a bit of the romantic renaissance about it. Get creative. Besides bunches or bouquets you will be able to create wreaths, swags, garlands and whatever else you can think of. For those of you who grow herbs, let your oregano flower. You will get great bunches of purple flowers to dry.
One can even become more artistic by putting dry flower arrangements under glass and in old frames.
There are tons of sources for supplies on the web. Your library will probably be able to get you many books on the subject. So just get started! Plant your garden or harvest it now should you have one that has not been hit by frost.
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Author Bio Box: Arlene Wright Correll
 Resources: Excerpted from “Food For Thought Series” by Arlene Wright-Correll
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