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ings. But sometimes they don’t look anything like in the seed catalogues.” One of their biggest disappointments last year was something called sea holly. She hadn’t heard of it before, but it was supposed to have pretty blue flowers. It didn’t.
Shades of blue are hardest to come by, Jane says. Lots of people are growing larkspur in the county, just to dry for the fall house tour. But it isn’t always easy to work with and doesn’t offer a lot of variety.
The Herndons have also tried growing and seedlings "in the hall with grow lights, but they come up so fast they get real leggy.” she reports.
They have the best luck planting the seeds in shallow flats of potting soil which they mix at the kitchen table. They then take them directly to the garden almost immediately after the plants have sprouted. When they run out of room, they take the seedlings to the social hour at church on Sunday and persuade fellow parishioners to adopt them.
Some df the m6sV cessfol driers are working with the plants from their own gardens, Jane says. For instance, Christine Johnson brought in more than 200 beautifully dried roses from her bushes last year.
No one working on the project would try to list all the others. “It takes a lot of effort from a lot of people and sometimes most of it from a few,” Jane says. “Everybody has their thing and Flossie has been the guiding light.”
Flossie’s Cellar
In a stone basement that was excavated in 1757, 85year-old Flossie Williamson is practicing the art which started this whole thing.
Flossie had a battery of lights for her herb business and says she has learned the dried flower processes from
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