Everlastings for Cutting Gardens
These flowers dry well, either left on the plant in the garden or when cut and hung upside-down in a cool, airy spot. Grow these flowers to use for everlasting dried-flower arrangements.
PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS FOR AIR-DRYING
SUMMER
Achillea filipendulina
(fern-leaf yarrow)
Achillea millefolium (common
yarrow)
Lavandula angustifolia (lavender)
LATE SUMMER AND FALL
Anaphalis cinnomomea
(pearly everlasting)
Artemisia ludoviciana 'Silver King' (white sage, wormwood)
Echinops ritro (globe-thistle)
Eryngium amethystinum (amethyst sea holly)
Gypsophila paniculata (baby's breath)
Limonium latifolium (sea lavender, statice)
Sedum x telephium 'Autumn Joy' (autumn joy stonecrop)
ANNUALS FOR AIR-DRYING
Celosia cristata (cockscomb)
Gomphrena globosa (globeflower, globe amaranth)
Helichrysum bracteatum (strawflower)
Limonium sinuatum (statice)
Lunaria annua (money-plant, dollar-plant, honesty); seedpods
Moluccella laevis (bells-of-Ireland)
Nigella damascena (love-in-a-mist); seedpods
Salvia viridis (painted sage)
BULBS FOR AIR-DRYING
Allium aflatunense (Persian onion);
seedpods
Allium schoenoprasum (chive)
ORNAMENTAL GRASSES FOR AIR-DRYING
Briza media (quaking grass, rattlesnake
grass)
Chasmanthium latifolium (northern sea oats, wild oats)
Miscanthus sinensis (eulalia grass, silver grass)
Pennisetum alopecuroides (fountain grass)
