Growing Ornamental Seed Heads and Plants For Crafting
March 17, 2009 by Linette Gerlach
Filed under Decorating with Nature
If you enjoy crafting but you’re trying to cut back on spending, grow some of your own crafting materials. There are tons of flowers that dry or press well. You can also use the seeds, leaves and seed heads of many plants to add interest to your craft projects.
Some of my favorites plants to grow and use for crafting include:
- broom corn has a wonderful seed head that works great in dried floral arrangements, or for mosaics.
- Rose blooms are wonderful dried, pressed, or rose hips are wonderful for crafts or potpourri.
- Poppy heads add interest to designs
- Wheat, oats, love in a mist, and ornamental grasses
- Lavender
- Babies breath
- Gourds can be dried and used for tons of crafts
- Ornamental popcorn, and Indian corn (for the ears, kernels, and the husks)
- Pine cones and needles
- Lotus pod
- Milkweed
- Chinese Lanterns
- Seeds (collect different sizes and shapes for mosaics or handmade cards)
Do you include your crafting plans when you are deciding what to plant in the garden?
