11/01/2025
How to Dry Cut Flowers At Home
Cut flowers can make a really wonderful gift. They’re beautiful, thoughtful, and can be meaningful. But they’re also transitory, and sometimes you want to keep a memento. That’s where drying selected flowers can come in.
Hang drying is the traditional approach to preserving cut flowers.
1. Select your flowers
Not all flowers can be dried successfully. But if you have blooms such as roses, achillea, amaranth, delphinium, hydrangea, chrysanthemum, and dahlias, the hanging method works really well. Choose flowers that are at their peak and showing no signs of wilting or decay. Flowers that have only just opened are perfect.
2. Prepare your flowers
Once you’ve selected your flowers, cut away any foliage and trim the stems. Tie string around the stem securely enough to hold the flowers upside down.
3. Hang your flowers
Find somewhere dry to hang your flowers. If you have ceiling hooks, that can work perfectly. Otherwise, try using an old coat hanger to tie the other end of your string to. Your flowers must be suspended upside down, and left for around three weeks. If you want your flowers to retain their vibrancy, make sure that they are hung in a dark place, away from direct sunlight. A shed, or an understairs cupboard would be perfect.
4. Finish
If properly dry, your flowers should last for a couple of years on display. To make them last a little longer, you can spray the dried blooms with unscented hairspray. Or keep them under glass.
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