Originally uploaded by tomygardenpath.

A few years ago, we bought my mother in law a hygrandea bush for her new house. This past week when we were visiting, the bush was covered with blooms. She wanted to share some of them with me, so that I could make a wreath, so I bought a bunch home.
I didn’t dry any flowers this year, except for a few bunches of lavender. In the past, my ceiling has been stung with all sorts of everlastings. Strawflowers, sea lavender, cotton lavender, helichrysum, globe amaranth, statice, sweet annie, and teasel are just a few of them. One year, I even grew eucalyptus from seed, but realized, after successfully getting it to grow, that I could not stand the fragrance in the house.
Most of them are easy to grow, and pretty to look at in the garden. You might want to give it a try. To dry, just hang the flowers, stems on, upside down out of the direct light.