This holiday season, give gifts made with love from the garden to fellow gardeners. Save and give flower seeds, dry herbs for potpourri, and give dried culinary herbs in herbal gift baskets.
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It’s easy to save seeds from many common flower garden plants. Seeds collected in the fall can be packed into decorative tins, boxes, or homemade seed envelopes and given as gifts.
Many herbs and flowers can be dried to create homemade potpourri. Lavender flowers should be snipped during the summer months and dried in warm, sunny conditions to prevent mildew. Store the flowers for use in potpourri. Roses can also be sun dried, with the petals crumbled into homemade potpourri.
Many herbs dry well and no special equipment is needed. An old baking sheet or baking pan suffices as a solar dryer. Snip the herb leaves such as basil, oregano or mint, and spread one type out in the bottom of the pan or try. Place in the sun until it dries completely. Crumble the herbs with fingertips and store in a small glass jar. Be sure to label the jar to identify herbs.
Choose the best seeds, dried flowers and herbs on hand to assemble a holiday garden gift basket. Use clean mason jars for seeds or purchase small containers at garage sales, yard sales, dollar stores or other discounters. Create original labels on the computer and label each item. Place in a gift basket with a holiday-themed dish towel lining the basket to add yet one more useful item. Wrap and give a gift from the heart, a garden gift basket made with love.
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