This is how you get beautiful dry bouquets

Grow the right species of everlasting flowers for drying

Not any of the over 600 different ones Everlasting species is equally suitable for use in a drying bouquet. While subspecies such as the so-called curry herb have little tendency to flower, varieties such as the gardenEverlasting flower (Helichrysum bracteatum) large flower heads in particularly intense ones Shades of color emerged. But there are also more subtle types of straw flowers that can still be used as attractive dried flowers. For example, the South African straw flower (Helichrysum splendidum) offers compact flowers and bright yellow and shiny silvery foliage. These Everlasting species is also outdoors under suitable conditions hardy.

Don't harvest the flowers too late

Unfortunately, among some hobby gardeners, the mistake is widespread that certain flowers can first be enjoyed in the garden and then later used as dried flowers. Unfortunately, the same applies here as with the processing of fruit and vegetables: the fresher you harvest the flowers, the better and more aesthetic the result will be after processing. You should therefore cut off the flowers intended for drying when the flower head is only beginning to open. As with roses as cut flowers, the flowers open before and during the drying process.

Dry and preserve immortelle properly

Cut on one Location not all stalks of the straw flower off, then you can sow it yourself not hardy varieties hope. There are various options for hanging with the flower heads facing down:

• Suspension individually
• Suspension in the form of small bouquets
• Attachment with cord
• threaded with a thread and a needle

Threading along a thread has the advantage that the stalks of the straw flower, which are hanging individually, dry better than if they are densely packed in the form of a bouquet. The stems, cut as long as possible, should be hung upside down in a place that is as airy as possible, where exposure to the sun can lead to fading. Ready to dry Everlasting flowers be sprayed with hair lacquer, but this also increases their inflammability.