Dried flowers projects
Display with grasses and clover in pinks and greens As it’s the beginning of February I thought it was about time to start thinking about Spring! This isn’t a Valentines Day display but there’s a lot of love in it. The floral arrangement took me a couple of days to put together, only because on…
Red and green hand-tied bouquet I wanted to make an informal bouquet with a Christmas colour palette so settled on the soft greens of natural dried oats and wheat, and some dark but beautiful natural dried red roses. I brightened these up with some dyed green and red lagurus grass and some bleached stems of…
We love Escape to the Chateau! It’s a great show on Channel 4 in which Dick and Angel Strawbridge buy and do up a French chateau. Series one covered the basic renovations of the chateau and series two, in which the couple start to earn an income from their investment, has just aired. Dick and…
A kitchen full of dried flower bunches I had a fun time in my kitchen the other week when photographer Thomas Skovsende came to take some pics for an article in Prima magazine. The article was written by Eimear O’Hagan for a series called “Ladies who Launch” and she did a great job of extracting all…
DIY dried flower bouquet Make your own bouquet from dried flower bunches such as delphiniums, dried oats, and daisy-like white acroclinium or similar white rhodanthus flowers. How to make a dried flower bouquet I used one bunch each of the flowers listed above, except the acroclinium, which only required 12-15 stems. As well as the…