Learn how adding a variety of plant materials to your floral menu — ornamental grasses, herbs, berries, and structurally unique vegetables — can help create more distinctive, fragrant, and elegant dried-flower arrangements.
Instructions and tips for cutting and air-drying ornamental flowers: location for drying, selecting flowers to dry, prepping, and how to know when your dried materials are ready for arrangements and crafting.
Key differences between two species of Gomphrena grown for use as cut and dried flowers, with tips on plant habit, color palette, and harvesting.
Four farmer-florists from across the continent discuss selecting, planning, growing, harvesting, drying, designing, pricing and selling your dried botanical materials.
Here's what to look for when you're harvesting strawflowers for use as dried flower material, from Joy Longfellow, Trial Tech at Johnny's Selected Seeds.
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Video: Savannah Grass (Melinus nerviglumis) for Cut-flower Production | from Johnny's Selected Seeds
Flower Product Manager Hillary Alger demonstrates how to tell when your savannah grass is ready for harvesting for fresh or dried use in cut-flower arrangements.
Join Flower Trial Tech Joy Longfellow for a tutorial on drying flowers, including tips and recommendations for a few of her favorites, from tried-and-true workhorse crops and varieties for drying to flower crops with novel colors, textures, and forms.
Here are some key attributes of Carthamus as a cut-flower, including cultural notes, when best to harvest, structural and design features.