Slow Flowers Show: Episode 663V

Designing with Dried Flowers - a new book by Hannah Muller of Full Belly Farm and Wreath Room
Flowers are fleetingly beautiful, but dried floral arrangements are both lovely and lasting. In her new book, Designing with Dried Flowers, Slow Flowers member and farmer-florist Hannah Muller of The Wreath Room and Full Belly Farm shares her unique methods to naturally dry flowers that hold their color and delicacy - and how to design small arrangements for every day, beautiful wreaths for all seasons and occasions, and celebration showstoppers that will look gorgeous in the moment and for months to come.
Last week, the Slow Flowers community gathered online for a virtual meet-up with our featured expert, Hannah Rose Rivers Muller, of Full Belly Farm and Wreath Room. With her family, especially her lifelong mentor and mother Dru Rivers, Hannah grows 15 acres of cut flowers in Guinda, California, located about 45 minutes west of Sacramento.
We’ve had Dru and Hannah as past guests of the Slow Flowers Podcast in a 2021 conversation, which you can find at slowflowerspodcast.com.
Today, we’re welcoming Hannah back to the Slow Flowers community as she shares her passion for dried botanicals. She spent two years working with photographer Molly Decoudreaux to capture all the seasons of growing, harvesting, processing, drying and designing with flowers, herbs, floliages, grains, and grasses.
Their new book, Designing with Dried Flowers, will be published on June 4th and we have a link for you to order your own copy, as well as all the places where you can follow along with Hannah as she inspires people to embrace and celebrate the joy and beauty of drying flowers for long-term enjoyment.
The video that accompanies this episode includes Hannah’s centerpiece design demo, and a discussion of some of the varieties she prefers for wreathmaking, bouquet making and creating arrangements.

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Penstemon (beardtounge) how are you supposed to harvest it?
Vase life is only 3 days, just cutting it.
Do you need to dip in hot water first, or something else?