A Colorful Week

Eat your colors! 

Dried Marigold flowers dried in silica gel. These beauties are going to made into a fall arrangement. 

Our sunflower "Beanalope" Funny story about him. He was growing in the crack of a shopping center sidewalk. We felt bad for him so we pulled him out and planted him in our garden. We named him Beanalope because when we found him we had no idea what he was. A bean? A cantaloupe? A Beanalope!  Turns out he is a sunflower. 

Dried Lavender made into potpourri. 

Hydrangea Bouquet for my BFF. 

Lavender Drying Tutorial

Dried Lavender smells fantastic and holds its scent for years. I'm obsessed! Keep it in a dresser drawer, hang it in a closet, or use a dried bouquet to decorate your home. Here is a tutorial on drying your own. 

Cut your lavender and sort it by size. Doing so insures that smaller cuttings will not fall out while drying. Be sure to remove any unwanted leaves and off-shooting stems. 

Bumblebees LOVE lavender so watch your step. 

Save some flowers on the plant for your enjoyment and for the bees! 

Use rubber bands to band together small bouquets of like size flowers. The rubber will tighten as the stems dry which keeps the flowers from falling out. Attach twine to the rubber bands so they can hang.

These can be hung in a lightly used coat closet or any other dark, cool location. (I dry mine in the upper level of a barn) The lavender should be dry in about three weeks. Enjoy! 

Dried arrangement from last years harvest. 

(also, my first ever harvest.)  

Stay tuned for the 2014 dried harvest which I predict will be much better!

I <3 Bumblebees