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Article: Flowers all year 'round.(how to make and use dried flowers)
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- Hopscotch
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- August 1, 1994
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Outside, the snow is beating against the window, but you have hot chocolate to keep you warm, a cozy chair, and flowers to look at to remind you of spring.
Flowers in winter? Yes! Dried flowers, that is. Drying flowers in spring and summer is fun. It is free. It lets you have real flowers all year. Cut flowers in the morning after any dew has evaporated. Either garden or wild flowers will do, although garden flowers sometimes dry a little better. Be sure to leave a lot of stem on your flowers when you cut. Strip away leaves off the stems carefully
Tie the flowers together in small bundles (about 12 flowers) with string or twine and hang your bundles ...