Dried flowers inspiration

Dried flower crafts – Modern ways with bunches, petals and botanicals

Dried wedding flowers

Wedding inspiration with dry blooms – How to choose petal confetti –
Make your own dried flower confetti – Using lavender as a wedding theme

Making bouquets

How to make hand-tied bouquets – my ideas and tips

Dried lavender flowers

Includes links to sleep pillows – relaxation – dried lavender bottles – make a lavender pomander – make bath soaks – lavender bags – clothes moth – lavender bouquets – potpourri – Free PDF

Growing flowers to dry

I’m always experimenting with flowers from my own garden

Welcome to Dried Flower Craft, the home of modern dried flowers.
I’m Ruth and I’ve been working with dried flowers since 2003. Every week I’m trying out more dried flower craft projects – dried lavender and roses in abundance!

Easy natural Christmas craft ideas

How to dry flowers

My tips for drying stems, bunches and petals

Ruth’s dried flower craft blog and business – What people say

Ruth Ridley turned a love of horticulture into a sweet-smelling career.

Prima magazine

Since we received the dried flowers from Daisy Shop, the chateau has been filled with beautiful aromas, delicate colours and textures. We were so impressed with how well the flowers travelled, the speedy and helpful service and the huge variety on offer. We used Daisy Shop for our first wedding at the chateau to create a vintage flower look and we will definitely be using them again. Can’t recommend them highly enough.

Escape to the Chateau – Dick and Angel Strawbridge

When you explore Ruth Ridley’s dried flower craft blog, there are a few surprises to be had. With a solo mission to combat the dusty association that dried flowers have with the 70s, she examines numerous ways with the dried buds. Be it in potpourri, aromatherapy, scented pillows, wreaths, arrangements or craft activities, Ruth provides inspirational projects and expertise, despite having no formal floristry training. Her dried flower blog is a perfect accompaniment to her interest in gardening; through the craft she seeks to prolong the beauty of summer and revive the vintage art of flower preservation.

Homemaker magazine