A Dried Flower Table Garland for Spring

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This year, the Easter celebration holds a particular significance. It is not only my dear daughter’s first, but our first in this new home. I have always held a fondness for Easter as it seems to be the very heart of spring. The mornings are crisp and misty, the evenings are warm, with the joy of an occassional refreshing rain.

I have never cared for artificial florals, so I resolved to create a dramatic tablescape adorned with dried botanicals. I primarily used eucalyptus, which dries well and retains its form admirably. As a pleasant addition, it offers a faint refreshing scent throughout the space from time to time. I am quite pleased with how it has all come together.

Dress by Doen.

Bundles of florals from Trader Joe’s – different varieties of eucalyptus, baby’s breath, chamomile, rosemary, juniper (plucked from my backyard), and blue sea holly.

I used two methods to dry the botanicals: silica and air dry. I don’t recommend the silica because it was incredibly messy and it didn’t give a result worth the effort. Air drying upside down produced the same botanicals with much less effort and money.

I created small bundles, mixing different botanicals and wrapped with olive green wax thread. While the orange flowers are stunning and dried beautifully, they proved to be too delicate for this application.