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these hrst arrangements contained marigolds, dahlias, straw flowers, artemesia, old man’s love, and “lots of wild things.”
Lois Snead remembers well the second year. On Sept, il, with a station wagon full of arrangements and a one month old baby, Lib, she and three or four other women went, with their own cars full of flowers, to the community room set up at the Woodward & Lothrop’s at 7 Comers to present the 35 - 50 or so arrangements for sale. Their hard work drying flowers in Flossie’s attic paid off, and everything sold very quickly. In fact, Woodies then passed a rule that nothing could be sold in the community room from then on.
Their own plastic flowers did not sell well.
By the third year, or 1957, they decided they needed a way to display the arrangements to be able to sell them. Thus began the Annual House Tour and Dried Flower Sale.
Lois Snead recalls the many efforts that were tried over the years. One year, they tried taking special orders. But this involved wallpaper, paint, and drapery samples with flowers arranged in preset containers, and delivery, sometimes to northern Virginia! Another year the women not only grew and dried the flowers, but they heated old records so that they could be bent into shapes and painted as containers for the arrangements.
In the early years, only sand was used for drying. This involved bringing the sand home from the beach, washing it in detergent until the water was clear, dumping the drained sand onto sheets on the grass and letting it dry out, and then bringing it into the kitchen to bake in the oven to store in tin containers until ready to use. No task too
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