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The Flowers, Dried Delights, will help you enjoy bouquets from your garden year-round when you grow these flowers. Sometimes called everlastings, these varieties are well-suited to drying and other methods of preservation. Dried flowers provide endless possibilities for flower arrangements, wreaths, swags and other craft ideas. The Dried Flower packet contains seed of 20 different flowers that lend themselves to drying. When fresh flowers are scarce and expensive in the winter, arrangements of “everlastings” are a wonderful alternative for indoor floral decorations. Instructions for drying the flowers are found on these seed packets. Plant 1 to 2 weeks before the average last spring frost date. Place them in full sun and keep the soil well drained and moist. Some of the flowers contained in the seed packet are Baby’s Breath, Bells of Ireland, Chinese Lantern, Green Thumb, Love in a Mist, Money plant, Pampas Plume, and Strawflowers. This mix covers approximately 40 square feet.

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The Wallflower English Bedder Blend, ‘Cheiranthus cheiri’, displays dense clusters of fragrant, velvety, rich colored flowers. If you have an English garden, this perennial is a must. The flowers are rich in color and very fragrant. The flowers occur in dense clusters on top of dwarf plants. The Wallflower has 1/2 inch across flowers and colored in shades of yellow, orange, brown, and rust. The Wallflower English Bedder Blend is an excellent plant for coastal and mountainous regions because of its hardiness. The Wallflower blooms in the spring about the same time as lilacs and will bloom for 4 to 8 weeks. The blooms should be deadheaded often. Plant in average garden soil and in the early spring or in early fall, and at least 2 months before the average first frost date. The English Bedder Blend is used for cut flowers, rock gardens and borders.

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