How to Make a Dried Flower Bouquet

Making a dried flower bouquet is a fun project. You can use your own ideas and imagination to make a dried flower bouquet for any room in your house. Dried flower bouquets can take some planning or you can do at the spur of the moment when you see some pretty weeds that you like.

To plan on making your own dried flower bouquet you have to start by planting a flower garden with a variety of flowers that look nice dried. You should pick out the type of flowers that dry well. Some varieties of flowers that dry well are statice, straw flowers, and baby's breath. You can find out what types of flowers dry well at a garden center. You can also see pictures of the flowers to see what kinds of flowers you like. Then you can take the flowers you like and make a flower garden with them. You can enjoy the live flowers that you have growing and then when the flowers are ready you can pick them to dry for later.

To dry live flowers you need to pick them with a stem attached. After you have the flowers picked you need to hang the flowers upside down to dry. When you hang the flowers up side down to dry that makes the stems and flowers stronger and straighter; It also helps the dried flowers to last longer. If you dry the flowers right side up they are weaker and they tend to bend over and not look as nice.

After your flowers are dried you can make dried flower arrangements with them and set them in a vase. Or you can make crafts with your dried flowers.

Sometimes you find weeds along roadsides that are pretty and would look nice in a dried flower arrangement. You would be surprised how nice a bouquet of dried weeds can look. When you pick wild weeds make sure you pick ones that are growing in an undesirable place like on the sides of a country road. If you pick flowers that are growing along the roadside they will not be missed since they are probably not wanted there. You can find some beautiful fascinating flowers to dry along the roadsides but be careful when you do it. Make sure you don't get hit by a car and park in a safe place. Never pick a wild weed or flower that is in a natural setting or wild area. Wild flowers are valuable and should not be disturbed so they can live to produce more flowers in the future.

By Donna Daniels