Real World Gardener-Horticulture, Gardening, Learning to Grow
Real World Gardener
21 episodes
9 months ago
Bust out of your fantasy world and go gardening in the real world with horticulturalist, Marianne Cannon. Be inspired with one of the many feature interviews and regular segments with horticulture industry professionals and garden enthusiasts, including Design Elements, Plant of the Week, Plant Doctor, Spice it Up, The Good Earth, The Kitchen Garden, Tool Time and Vegetable Heroes. Real World Gardener extracts from the radio program broadcast on 2RRR 88.5fm in Sydney, Australia.
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Bust out of your fantasy world and go gardening in the real world with horticulturalist, Marianne Cannon. Be inspired with one of the many feature interviews and regular segments with horticulture industry professionals and garden enthusiasts, including Design Elements, Plant of the Week, Plant Doctor, Spice it Up, The Good Earth, The Kitchen Garden, Tool Time and Vegetable Heroes. Real World Gardener extracts from the radio program broadcast on 2RRR 88.5fm in Sydney, Australia.
Real World Gardener-Horticulture, Gardening, Learning to Grow
9 minutes 56 seconds
3 years ago
Drying Flowers on Real World Gardener
TALKING FLOWERS
Dried Flowers and How To Do Them
Did you know that dried flowers are back in fashion?
Perhaps, like me you thought that never went out of fashion, but do you dry your own on do you buy dried flower arrangements?
No prizes for guessing that those brightly coloured flowers are actually bleached in vats of bleach first, then because all the pigmentation (chlorophyll) has been removed it is practically falling apart.
The next step, the foliage is plasticised and dyed. Not something you want to display in your home
The process behind these dyed flowers is incredibly toxic and is usually down outside Australia.
Dry Your Own.
Some Australia flowers dry naturally in full colour such as golden everlasting, Australian paper daisy (Rhodanthe chlorocephela) , Billy Buttons (Pycnosorus globosus).
Billy Buttons-dried by hanging upside down
Dried Rhodanthe sp.
Surprises
Did you know that you could even dry your dahlia flowers?
Choose the more tightly formed varieties with darker colours perform best.
Some hardier flowers and foliage can be left to dry in the vase such as banksias, eucalypt foliage, and kangaroo paw.
HOW?
Hang upside down in a dark area with plenty of air flow so no mould or mildew develops.I'm talking with florist and educator, Nadine Brown, florist educator and business mentor of the Ivy InstituteWhy not have a go and drying flowers from your garden?If you have any feedback email realworldgardener@gmail.com or write in to 2RRR PO Box 644 Gladesville NSW 1675
Real World Gardener-Horticulture, Gardening, Learning to Grow
Bust out of your fantasy world and go gardening in the real world with horticulturalist, Marianne Cannon. Be inspired with one of the many feature interviews and regular segments with horticulture industry professionals and garden enthusiasts, including Design Elements, Plant of the Week, Plant Doctor, Spice it Up, The Good Earth, The Kitchen Garden, Tool Time and Vegetable Heroes. Real World Gardener extracts from the radio program broadcast on 2RRR 88.5fm in Sydney, Australia.
