Heirloom flowers delight the senses with their stunning beauty and fragrance.
Their blooms encapsulate the essence of summer, bringing cheerful color and scores of pollinators
to the garden.
The vibrant colors of these everlasting blooms will last well into the winter, allowing you
to savor their beauty long after the garden has faded.
Gomphrena flourishes over a long season.
The tidy, compact plants produce tons of blooms, and when dried, the papery petals hold their
color beautifully.
Gomphrena is a snap to grow and dry.
It can be woven into flower crowns or wreaths, or bunched into poseys and bouquets.
Gomphrena is also a great choice for the fine art of floral embroidery.
The gorgeous, lustrous blooms of strawflower look as if they were crafted from satin.
Strawflower produces profusions of blooms on long stems, making them perfect for weaving
and arranging.
Or, you can remove the heads and thread them onto garlands — or even just keep a glass
dish of the cheerful blossoms like a candy jar of color.
Allow the petals of Love In A Mist to fall, and watch the heads inflate like small balloons.
This is the perfect time to pick the pods for a most unusual and intriguing everlasting
flower.
Pair these pods with vibrant blooms in dried arrangements, and their muted colors and wild
form will perfectly compliment bolder colors.
Opium poppies such as Hungarian blue breadseed or Lilac pompom produce large blue pods.
The dried pods of poppy take on a dusty blue hue and add a natural, rustic feel to arrangements.
Perhaps one of the most intriguing dried flowers, Paper Moon scabiosa is like a pincushion!
It’s a lovely addition to a dried arrangement.
Yarrow will beckon beneficial pollinators from far and wide as it grows.
Harvest the lacey umbrella flowers for an everlasting that has the rustic feel of a
vintage apothecary harvest the lacey umbrella flowers for an
everlasting that has rustic charm and can even play a role in your medicine cabinet
Statice is one of the most colorful everlasting flowers!
Its umbel flower shape is a nice departure from the norm, making a spray of colorful
blossoms.
Baby’s breath is a classic and it’s fairly easy to grow.
The delicate white blooms add an airy, ethereal touch to floral designs.
To preserve the fleeting fragrance of summer, grow and dry spikes of lavender.
Beyond its aesthetic benefits, lavender yields a potent, soothing essential oil.
The spikes add fragrance to wreaths and arrangements — and be sure to save some for making lavender
eye pillows and for sprinkling in your bathwater.
Amaranth isn't just a nutritious seed — this plant was considered sacred in ancient Aztec
culture, and the seed heads make a breathtaking ornamental.
Its beauty can be preserved long after harvest, adding autumnal elegance to designs.
Orach is an edible green, but allow it to produce flower stems!
With their slightly weeping habit, the seed panicles are stunning!
As a unique everlasting, it should not be overlooked!
When drying flowers, be sure to cut the stems and hang the flowers upside down someplace
dry, with good airflow and out of direct sunlight, such as the rafters of a barn or shed.
They can also be dried on wire or mesh racks.
With proper handling, the vivid colors can be preserved for months!