Everlasting Flowers

On the whole I'd say they don't really get me that excited and they have too many dusty connations for my liking really. Don't think it is helped by most of them just looking like dead flowers and I can hear the spiders already eyeing up the collection I reassembled at work. There are only so many times you can walk into hanging bunches of them, knocking most of them out of the bunches and trying to leave the potting shead without half of them in your hair, its a look worth trying! There were some flowers out of all those bunches that, well, weren't quite so dusty. They seem to have kept their colour and as a small bunch looks quite cheery, so I brought some home and they go quite well in the swan vase.

Their colours match in too with the bright colours of the glass cockerel. They are called straw flowers, Helichrysum, and are relatively easy to grow. Would possibly be good as a table decoration - no fear of them wilting! Shall grow them again and maybe embrace the dustyness or the fire might...