Dried Flowers: Growing, Harvesting, Drying and Arranging Everlasting Flowers, Grasses and Seedheads from Your Own Garden

Pick up a strawflower that was cut in high summer and hung in a dark cupboard, and it rustles. In October it is still the same hot orange or clear lemon it was in August, and still the same shape. That is the quiet appeal of growing flowers for drying: you raise them for one season and they keep working for you through the next.

This book takes you through the whole business, from the seed packet to the jug on the mantelpiece. It shows you how to plan a drying patch or tuck drying crops i...