Displaying Dried Flowers? Be creative!
- Su Whale
- Sep 16
- 2 min read
A display of dried flowers will set the tone seasonally, will smell lovely, especially if it includes lavender, and is another reason to entice customers into your shop. Dried bunches can be popped into wicker baskets or something else equally rustic, but that’s not the only way to do it. You don’t have to be traditional, they are plenty of more interesting ways to show them off.
Here are a few ideas:
Picture This
Picture frames are easy to pick up from charity shops. Choose a single, large decorative one, or a selection of smaller ones to hang your flowers from, as this example shows from RHS Tatton Park.
Rustic display
Alternatively, for something a little less ornate, make a simple wooden frame and strengthen it with wire mesh, from which you can also hang your flower bunches.
Feeling artistic?
Mini painting easels are innovative ways to show off your flowers. These could be placed on tables around the shop, or in the centre of your dried flower display.
Take away flowers
To enhance your sales, make up colour coordinated bouquets of dried flowers, wrapped in matching craft paper. These are great pick up and go items, and excellent gifts.
Bottles
Small glass bottles are such a pretty way to show off a few stems. These will sit on a side table, hospital locker or desk and make lovely keepsakes.
Flower ladder
A simple, but very effective way to show off dried flowers. Using lengths of dowel, space them out making sure there is enough space for the flowers to hang in between before securing with rope. A plain, light coloured wall is the ideal background.
Create a flower wall
Why not create a floral gallery wall with dried bunches. If you don’t want to make lots of holes in the wall, instead, string fishing line, ribbon or rope, depending on your look, across the wall from side to side. Bunches can be easily pegged or tied on.
Images Envato Elements
Su Whale is a florist and freelance writer with over twenty-five years' experience in the floristry industry. She is the author and publisher of three best-selling books: Cut Flowers, 4th edition (2020) Cut Foliage, 2nd Edition, (2021) and Houseplants (2019), all bookshelf essentials for the professional florist.
