The garden in June is generous — more flowers than any house can hold. This handbook is how you keep them.

Written by cut-flower grower Vanessa Lee of Pepperwood Home & Garden, The Dried Floral Handbook teaches you to dry the flowers you love at their peak and arrange them into pieces that hold their color and shape for a year or more — a vase of summer on the table in the middle of winter.

Inside  Covers :
• The best flowers for drying — an 18-flower chart with the best method and the exact moment to cut each one
• Four drying methods, step by step: air drying, silica gel, pressing, and glycerin for foliage
• How to vase-dry hydrangeas, wire stems for wreaths, and store the harvest so it lasts
• Arranging the Pepperwood way: spine, focals, texture and air — plus three colour palettes that never fail
• Three projects built step by step: the market vase arrangement, a lavender, eucalyptus & wildflower wreath (full materials list and assembly), and a hand-tied bouquet
• A year of arrangements — what to make in every season — plus a troubleshooting chart and a printable drying journal

You don't need a flower farm: a sunny border, a farmers-market bouquet, or a bunch of supermarket roses is enough to start this week.

Instant PDF download. Personal use Only.

By Vanessa Lee, Pepperwood Home & Garden, Grimesland NC — grower and author of The Fall Garden.

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