Do you have flowers from a special birthday, your wedding, or prom that you can’t bear to throw away? You can cherish your memories forever by drying these flowers and it’s actually really easy to do. The best flowers to use are roses, hydrangeas, and peonies and to add texture, you can add baby’s breath, statice, solidago, and brunia. Keep reading to learn how to dry flowers.
Materials:
- Flowers
- Clothes drying rack or clothes hanger
- Scissors
- Twine, cut in 10 to 12-inch lengths
Process:
- For flowers from a bouquet, pull each one out and get ride of the leaves and petals that are damp, discolored, or wilted.
- Cut an inch from the bottom of the stem and tie twine around the bottom of the stem. Make sure to leave a lot of twine so you can tie it to the drying rack or hanger.
- Starting at one end of the hanger, tie the twine so your flowers are hanging upside down.
- Continue with the rest of the flowers, leaving about three to five inches between each flower.
- Put the drying rack or hanger with the tied flowers in a dry area of your home for two to three weeks.
Arrange Them:
- After two to three weeks, cut the flowers from the twine and remove excess twine.
- Now you’re ready to decorate your home with the dried flowers! You can bunch and tie them together and hang them from a mirror, bunch them together and put them in a dry vase, or place single stems in bud cases.
