FEB 2024

Drying flowers is like preserving our vegetables: a way to take the abundance of spring, summer, and fall into the cold season. We don't just use the common, easy-to-dry flowers and seed heads such as strawflowers, amaranth, nigella, poppy capsules, switchgrass, lady's mantle, scabious, and various grasses. We also like to observe which wild herbs and flowers in nature retain beautiful seed heads, such as wild carrots, sorrel, hop vines, and thistles. Our perennial beds also yield wonderful dried works of art: perennial honesty, various asters and hellebore. Some things are surprising – daffodils, for example. When dried, they give the wreath an almost transparent lightness and a special delicacy. That's why it's always worth experimenting.