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Statice flowers are perfect for drying. Learn how to dry statice, and use these unique flowers in your dried flower arrangements.

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Statice, or Limonium sinuatum, is a tender perennial from the Mediterranean that can be grown as an annual flower in the cut flower garden.

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These interesting blooms have strong thick stems, and tissue paper like flowers that are perfect for drying.

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Dried statice holds it’s colour and stem strength. To dry the flower, it’s important to use the right right harvesting and drying techniques.

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Statice should be harvested when the blooms are mature. If harvested in an immature stage of growth, there is a chance that the flowers will wilt.

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This is an immature statice flower. The flowers are just beginning to open, and there are no tiny white flowers along with the colored parts of the flowers.

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The colored parts in the flower head are actually the calyx of the flowers.The small white blooms are the statice flowers.

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This is a mature statice flower. An indication of maturity on the statice flower is the presence of the tiny white blooms that open on top of the flower.

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Mature statice flower heads have a beautiful intense color.Try to capture this color and preserve it, in the dried flowers, by harvesting at the right time.

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Before drying, be sure to condition the freshly harvested statice flowers by providing time in a container to soak up water or a flower conditioning solution.

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Hanging statice to dry is by far the easiest way to dry the flowers. This technique involves air drying and hanging the flowers upside down.

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Pressing statice flowers is another way to dry them. The flowers become dried as they are slowly pressed flat.

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Drying statice upright in a vase is another technique, which also works well, and you can get to enjoy the flowers as they are drying in the vase.

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Drying statice in silica gel is another method of drying. Using this method is a quick and easy way to dry statice flower heads.

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Statice is one of the best flowers for drying, due to the ease of process and the resulting beautiful blooms.

For more information, see the tutorial!