Specialty Gardening: Botanicals...Cut and dried!, 0 by BLOSSOMBUDDY

BLOSSOMBUDDY wrote:
Thanks Terriculture! I love mixing drys with fresh.

My secret in that topiary I think was keepign it with a cover on it. I used a sleeve from a bunch of fresh flowers and it happened to fit it perfectly so the light was filtered to it.

I was thinking about trying to spray paint a couple of my dried wreaths like in either silver or gold to see how that would work to give them that metalic Victorian look!

I think the heat and humidity just reaks havoc on some of the colors.

I have a small heart wreath that just might make my first victim on that.. its colors are faded...the colors used to be as brit as the picture and now are horrid...so will see how that turns out...

Well, here is the before shot....