Everlasting Flowers
Flowers that refuse to fade: everlastings — strawflowers, statice, gomphrena, celosia and honesty — hold their colour and shape for years once dried, turning one summer’s patch into permanent bouquets, wreaths and crafts. The guides tagged here cover growing (most everlastings are easy, sun-loving annuals that thrive in poor soil) and the harvest secret: cut before blooms fully open, hang upside-down somewhere dry and airy for two weeks, done. They’re brilliant value for Indian gardens too — gomphrena shrugs off heat that wilts everything else. Grow once, enjoy literally for years.
Dry them somewhere dark if you can. Warm and airy sets the shape, but light is what bleaches the colour out – and colour is the entire point of an everlasting.
