Posts tagged growing flowers
Finding Happiness During Hard Times: seeking out calm during coronavirus lock down

During hard times, it can be challenging to feel joy or happiness. With uncertainty comes worry and anxieties which can play heavily on our minds and impact our ability to see the positives. Now more than ever, during lock down, we need to be seeking out those small moments of joy in our days, finding solace and allowing ourselves the space to create calm to slow down our minds.

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The Art of Drying Flowers

I’ve been drying flowers for a few years now, each year learning and exploring more about the ways to dry and what works best when drying. Previous years have seen me focus mainly on the those flowers that we all know dry well such as strawflowers, nigella seed pods, statice and all the grasses. These types of flowers and grasses are already part dried when picked, so the chances of success are high and the way in which they are dried simple.

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