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include straw flower, celosia, amaranth, blue salvia, and many ornamental grasses. Useful perennials for dried arrangements include yarrow, artemesia and lavender.
Grow personal
Christmas
decorations
Landscape plants are a source of Christmas celebration decorations. Magnolia leaves, fresh or treated in glycerine, can be the basis for wreaths and arrangements. A few pines in the landscape provide both cones and greenery. Hollies are traditional, but remember that male and female flowers are on separate plants and both are required for colorful fruit.
Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day makes us think of warm, loving cards with paper lace and flowers. Grow a few easily pressed flowers this year so you can prepare the cards yourself next year. Good ones to grow include pansy, Johnny-jump-up, ranunculus, single-flowered dianthus, and any similar thin, non-fleshy flowers that will dry rapidly.
Dr. Diane Relf is an environmental horticulturist with Virginia Cooperative Extension and is a member of the faculty of Virginia Tech.2
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