Drying Flowers

As a gardener, weirdly enough, my mum loves plants. So, our garden is always full of flowers and foliage, especially during spring and summer.

For the past few years, I've been cutting and drying flowers and foliage from the garden, and drying them in bouquets. I then either hang them up with the string I dried them in or arrange them in vases, and distribute them around the house.
I am starting to run out of vases to use though.

The title photo is this year's Spring haul from my visit home over Easter. I've taken some of the bouquets back up to Manchester with me, but unfortunately it's a little too difficult to transport the larger bouquets via train, so they're awaiting my return to be displayed properly.

Below are more photos from the process of collecting and drying those flowers (with the help of my friend Theodora).

Below are some of the dried flowers around my parents' house from the past three years. There are more, but these are my favourites.