How To Harvest & Dry Achillea For Your Own Valuable Everlasting Flowers
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Do you use every single one of the flowers you pour your heart and soul into growing? What if I said you could? Use very single stem and create amazing sustainable everlasting dried flowers with ingredients gathered from your very own garden.
Achillea, or commonly know as Yarrow, is an interesting flower shape, beautiful for fresh summer bouquets, and perfect for drying into everlastings. In this video I share my top tips on how to dry achillea perfectly so you can use it outside its normal season in your own DIY everlasting dried floral creations.
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....lovely to watch....thank youuuuu
Thank you for a quick reply. I will cut some of the creamy ones and a few yellow, but leave lots in the garden and see how I go on. 😊
Experimenting is the key 🔑 I think
Great tip ref conditioning them as normal first. Thanks 🐞
yes I've found that makes such a big difference with them doing it that way Hannah. Where are you based and what else do you go?
@@fierceblooms I’m in Devon, mad on flowers, flower growing, and learning all I can about floral art and floristry and flower arranging. 😀
Lots of growers and arrangers in Devon - perfect for your new plans - enjoy 😉
Thank you that was very helpful. I have red Achillea which did not last that long. Also Salmon coloured which had been lovely but faded to a creamy white. The yellow has been fantastic. Should I have cut the red and the Salmon colour when they were in their intended shades or would they have faded anyway? The yellow is still lovely so don't want to cut it yet : )
Hello Penelope thanks for your comment and glad you found the tips helpful. In my experience, the longer you leave the stem out in the weather and light on the plant, the less likely you are to be able to dry the colour, so if I want to capture the intensity of any colour, I will cut it at its peak, condition in the dark and dry out of direct sunlight - there’s always the tension of leaving flowers in your garden versus cutting for drying- my only suggestion on that is to do what I have if you can - grow more! Keep some for the garden and then you’ll have others to cut and dry - hope that’s useful Kathryn
sorry, but when cut and leaves taken off, you put the cut stems into water, for only one night? then dry them?
That’s right 1 night
Is it okay to store them upside down hanging in a dry dark place? Thanks
Yes absolutely- a dry place is the most important but away from light will ensure it keeps its colour