The Gathering Garden Magazine
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Straw Into Color: How to Harvest and Dry Your Own Strawflowers This Week
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Strawflowers are one of the only garden blooms that dry themselves, more or less, if you cut them at the right moment. A practical, late-summer harvest guide for anyone with a patch still going strong. -
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.
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Ammobium: The Winged Everlasting Behind Timeless Bridal Bouquets
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Meet Ammobium alatum, the papery Australian wildflower Victorians called an "everlasting" — and why it's still a favorite for bouquets, wreaths, and keepsakes that never wilt.
