To my big surprise I saw that I have 4 gorgeous hydrangeas blooming. The plant was in the front of the house a bit hidden and was obviously here when we moved in, I never had them before was just really admiring them and especially the ones Smoodgie has. It is quite windy today and one already broke off, so I picked the other three and would like to dry them. How do I do this for best results? Hang them upside down in a really dry place? I dried stuff before but these are special and I want to do it right. Thanks
BC
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Well, I think the reason we didn't notice the hydrangea because it's almost completely in the shadow of the rhodos. The previous owners planted a little bit of a garden in the front but nothing in the back. We have to move that plant in the fall otherwise it will not be able to grow but I'll give it some aluminium sulphate like you mentioned, it looks actually quite light blue, this is so exciting!!
BC
comes in a few colours and is easy to grow even in zones 4-5 in Canada.
The lavender blue is nice as is the pink. Better to pick these before fully open also.
Zones 4-5 it may not be a perennial but in BC I am sure it is. I know that "everlasting" grows as a perennial here in Quebec. It is a beauty too. Large clumps white soft paper-like blooms and a greyish-green foliage.
Lisi, you can even grow beautiful plants that you don't know you have.... I'm impressed!! Your hydrangeas are really pretty -- they're so soft and delicate looking!!
Now that you know the hydrangea plant is there, you can try adding some aluminium sulphate to the soil and see if that will turn the flowers blue. Generally, white hydrangeas are white hydrangeas and you can't change them. But yours do seem to have a slightly coloured hue to them. If you like the bright blue flowers, it's worth a shot -- I don't think you can do any damage to the plant with the aluminium sulphate, whether or not it changes the colour.
I agree they are beautiful. I don't know too much about them. Like I said there were only 4 flowers so I guess this is a slow growing plant. The blue ones are sure nice, mine show a little bit of blue but mostly white. Good luck with your garden.
BC
No senior moment there! You are right, just did a search and found a picture, it's looks exactly like mine in the vase, it's German statice. Thanks.
statice, but I will keep thinking as my senior moments are getting worse tehe. I prefer dried real stuff to silk, altho I have some silk hydrangeas I love. I will do my tour of the neighbours for hydrangeas blooms and make some up for my 2 daughters homes too. They can supply the containers. Even some dried herb leavesa and stalks are nice in arrangments and smell good too. It is best to dry flowers that are not open all the way as the petals fall off in the drying if fully open.
I'll follow those steps, didn't know about the hairspray! I have dried roses too. Years ago we had really nice grasses we dried, I think they were called gold $ or something, unfortunately I don't have them anymore but I still have something else (nameless) I like, maybe you regognize this
What I do is:
remove all leaves, tie them together at end of stems, elastic band works well. Hang upside down in dark dry area.
Better to dry before flowers totally open if you can. so petals don't fall off. Then I spray with a little hairspray after thoroughly dry. I dust them off by taking them outside and using my hair dryer on low.
I love them. I had some in a basket with dried rose buds and 1/2 opened rose blooms, which I dried the same way.
those are gorgeous...i really love haydrangeas and hopefully when we come around to redoing our gardens i'll have to include those in the list. they make great cut blooms!