How to Prepare and Arrange a Dried Floral Bouquet

Fall floral displays are some of the best because the plants that are blooming and those that are drying out naturally are so varied and deeply hued in color. Making a dried floral bouquet with the flowers that are growing in your yard is very easy and can be done rather quickly once you have decided what flowers you want to include. Some of the best flowers to include in your floral bouquet are grasses, black eyed susans, purple coneflowers, catalpa, milkweed pods (anything with pods is good), willow branches, grapevines, and boxwood.

To collect your flowers wait for a dry day and do not do any cutting right away in the morning when the flowers still have morning dew on them. Look for flowers and pods that have already begun to dry out naturally since the drying process for them will go by quicker. Before you begin drying the flowers you have chosen remove all the leaves and shorten the stems. For all the stemmed flowrs tie the stems off in a bunch and hang them upside down somewhere that will be warm and have a continual flow of air. Also be sure to keep the drying flowers out of direct sunlight.