Air Drying Fresh Flowers

Learning how to dry your fresh flowers will allow you to enjoy their memories for many months or even years longer.

Certain flowers such as baby's breath, statice, mimosa acacia and asters are excellent choices for air drying. Roses are often also successful candidates, however some varieties can lose their color.

To air dry your flowers, first cut them before they have reached the peak of their bloom, they will continue to bloom during the drying process. Try to cut them at about the same or similar length. Gather the flowers in small bundles, using a rubber band to keep them together. Once flowers are cut and ready to dry you should try to keep them out of direct sunlight which can often fade their color. Hang them upside down in a dark, well ventilated room such as a closet.

Your flowers should dry in about a week to 10 days depending on the air circulation and the type of flower. This is certainly the least expensive method of drying flowers, and often very successful.