As I stroll through my garden in early fall, I smile when I come across my hydrangea plants. They are full, lush, and lovely. This is the time to harvest your blooms for dried flower arrangements.

Hydrangeas are flowers that keep on giving. During summer, they paint a riot of color in our yards in blues, purples, pinks, lime greens and white, then turn to deeper, darker colors like blue-greens, ...

While dried flowers are the height of fashion, too often shop-bought bunches are sprayed with preservatives or coloured with synthetic, environmentally harmful dyes. Growing your own is a wonderful ...