The Gathering Garden Magazine
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Three Thousand Years of Keeping Flowers Alive: A History of Drying and Preserving Blooms
From Egyptian funerary garlands to Victorian herbariums to modern silica gel and freeze-drying, humans have spent three thousand years solving the same problem: how to make a flower outlast the person who cut it. -
Strawflower: The Australian Wildflower That Started the Dried Flower Movement
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The papery bloom Victorians called the immortelle isn't really a flower at all in the way we think of one—and that botanical trick is exactly why it started a 200-year-old dried flower obsession.
