After all the hard work of planting and growing heirloom roses, the joy of gathering up buckets brimming with roses, flowering herbs and assorted flowers and foliage is one of my all-time favourite luxuries.
Then there's the fun part of arranging posies and bouquets for special requests and occasions. But after all the bouquets are wrapped and picked up or delivered, there are always left-overs.
Being one of the last baby boomers, with parents who had grown up in the war years, wastefulness was never tolerated. And childhood lessons are often hard to shake, so I have always felt uncomfortable throwing away left-over lovelies, like single roses, fragrant herbs and foliage.
So I have decided to gather up spare roses and left-over bunches of herbs like feverfew and lemon thyme, and hang them to dry in my downstairs 'studio'.
I'm gathering a little collection now and they're starting to look lovely .. little bunches and posies dangling in the breeze.
In fact, they're looking so lovely that I've started to pick and dry posies and bunches of roses and herbs on purpose .. just to hang and dry.
The fragrance is lovely .. softer and more muted than the strong scent of freshly cut roses and herbs .. but still very present.
So now whenever there's a bounty in the garden, or I need to dead-head roses, instead of throwing them out I gather up bunches and hang them upside down.
And they're just lovely hanging from the rafters!!!
So now I'm selling pretty little posies of dried botanicals that don't wither in the sun and heat and don't need to have their water changed daily ..
A perfect little gift for that difficult someone to buy for ..
Contact me via Facebook: Edgeworth Lley - Heirloom Roses if you'd like to place an order.
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