How do I Dry a Fresh Flower Bouquet?

Whether you garden flowers on your home landscape or you're the recipient of a beautiful bouquet, preserving the flowers proves easy. Knowing how to dry a fresh flower bouquet gives you the ability to showcase the flowers indefinitely in dried arrangements and other floral crafts. Requiring only a little time and basic materials, drying fresh floral bouquets serves as an easy endeavor for people of all ages.

Floral bouquet
Paper grocery sack
Rubber band
Paper plate

Instructions

- 1
  Place the floral bouquet, blossom-side-down, into the paper grocery sack. Don't allow the blossoms to touch the bottom of the sack. Instead, hold the stems out of the bag.
- 2
  Wrap the grocery sack around the stems of the bouquet, still making sure to keep the blossoms off of the sack's bottom.
- 3
  Bind the stems and bag together with a rubber band. This keeps the flowers from touching the bottom of the bag so they can dry evenly.
- 4
  Place the sack on top of the paper plate. Place the paper plate somewhere cool and dry such as a pantry. Let the bouquet sit like this for a week.
- 5
  Remove the dried, preserved bouquet from the bag and use as you desire.

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