Mary-Anne Da’Marzo of Soho’s preserved flower store, The Last Bunch , shares her trade secrets on creating beautiful dried flowers at home.
The increased popularity of flowering plants like pampas grass on Instagram has created a fascination of alternative flowers, particularly dried flowers or ‘everlastings’ as they’re also known.
Gardeners may be looking for new ways to make the most of their fruit and flowers this year – and dried flowers are once again catching on. Head-dresses, gift cards, wreaths and framed indoor displays can all be made using dried flowers you’ve grown yourself.
Floral artist Bex Partridge, author of a new book, Everlastings, explains: “Most of us have probably done this at some point...