Decorating with dried flowers

The thought of dried flowers takes us back to childhood memories and the house we grew up in. Where dried flowers and herbs hang from the ceiling, on the walls and doors, or delight the corner of the old country house. Decorating with dried flowers is a wonderful way to bring the beauty of nature into your home all year round. Not only it is an opportunity to extend the life of fresh flowers but also arranged natural bouquets look great hanging upside down during the drying process.

Popular since Victorian times, decorating with dried flowers has made a comeback in recent years. This way of connecting with nature is a great alternative to fresh floral bouquets and arrangements, which unfortunately have a limited life. Dried flowers, unlike cut flowers, are timeless and bring an accent to the interior month after month without having to be constantly refreshed, making them much more durable for long-lasting seasonal decoration.

Tips and Ideas for decorating with dried flowers

There are countless ways to arrange dried flowers in your home. To help and inspire you, we've collected some of our favorite trending creative ideas and tips on how to arrange dried flowers in your home.

Use old glass jars and bottles

Jam jars, old clay pots, decanters, and all glassware make modest but lovely stands for hand-picked flowers. Decorate them with seasonal greens such as gypsophila, phalaris, rabbit tails, daisies, and any blooming flowers. Tie the bouquet with hemp rope and trim the ends so that the bouquet fits perfectly in the jar.

Create lush anf long arrangement on the table

Dried flower garlands are great fall table decoration that can be used over and over again. Use mimosa, flax, chamomile, helichrysum, daisies, wheat, delphinium, statice, rabbit tails, eucalyptus, gypsophila, and any forest branches and tree bark. Cut all the flowers into 10cm lengths and fix them together in groups of the same type. Take part of the garland and wind the long greens. Start at one end and gradually build up with the clustered flowers, blending them for the fullness.

Make a dry wreath

A dry wreath is perfect for accent on a plain wall and it's always lovely hung on a front door for holidays like Easter and Christmas. To make the base of the wreath start with vine branches. Then arrange the flowers in separate groups - mimosa, eucalyptus, wheat sheaves, rabbit tails, delphinium, gypsophila, hypericum. Begin placing the first group of flowers along the front of the wreath at the base, with the stems facing down. Secure in place with floral wire. Repeat with the next group of flowers, making sure the flowers cover the wire. Continue until you reach the center, then repeat in the other direction. Finish and cover the last stems with helichrysum flower heads or whatever blooming color you like.

Decorate the mirrors

Cresting a mirror with dried flowers is a wonderful way to bring a beautiful, feminine, and natural touch to a dressing table in a bedroom or entrance hall. In this way, you can create a vivid, textural, and wild feeling of nature in your home. Include birch or willow twigs, ferns, straw flowers, and any blooming wildflowers. Also, use ornamental grasses such as rabbit tails and Japanese reeds.

Use old vintage accessories

If you love to decorate with antiques, then why not display a dried bouquet in a vintage jug? Using vintage accessories is a brilliant way to create a quirky arrangement and would look lovely on a mantelpiece, on a windowsill, or as a centerpiece on a cottage kitchen table.

DRIED AROMATIC HERBS AND FLOWERS

If you plan to dry your home-grown herbs and flowers, then we advise you to make a beautiful arrangement by tying the bunches into a common wreath. Hanged like this, they will represent a chandelier of dry plants, and the unique aroma will bless the whole room.

To dry flowers and get the best results, you should dry them in bunches of stems about 5-10cm, but no more, otherwise, the flowers in the middle will rot. Trim the herbs and flowers and group them into bunches. Tie with hemp rope and then hang the wrists equidistant from each other on the wreath. Tie the entire wreath on all four sides and hang it on a hook from the ceiling.

Napkin ring with dry flowers

A beautiful idea for decorating a dining table is a napkin ring with dry flowers. Delicate way to decorate the table, on special occasions! Use mimosa, daisies, rabbit tails, or gypsophila. Take some floral wire and roll it in a circle a few times to make the base like a ring, then squeeze a small group of flowers together by cutting off the long stems.

Make a Herbarium and seal it in a beautiful frame

Pressed dried flowers are perfect for framing and serve as botanical art on any wall. A series of herbariums displayed in frames bring the beauty and tranquility of the outside world to the inside home. They are a beautiful element that always looks great, whether it is in the bedroom, the living room, the kitchen, or the hall.

If you want to create a gallery of botanical species, we advise you to start framing on the floor. This will allow you to move the pieces around until you find the layout you like best. Remember, the key to creating a relaxing room is to allow the space to breathe around the artwork.