How To Dry Flowers How To Dry Flowers 5 2 user ratings Enlarge Dried flowers are interesting aspects of flower arranging. In this video, a florist will tell you all about drying red roses and hydrangeas for example, from when to pick them up, to how to use them. I'm going to show you how to dry flowers. In particular, I'm going to show how to dry roses and hydrangea. Now, when you want to dry flowers, it's best to look at the colour and observe the colour because flowers which are the true primary colours such as this brilliant orange and this bright pink, they would declass while the colour would remain and drain to us. If you're going to dry something that is dark like this dark red rose, it will go darker. If you have something that's very pale, it will go lighter, so that the best ones to give a good show colour are the ones close to the primary. To do this, I am going to take the orange because I think this is going to dry just heavenly and I've got some that I've dried earlier. With the roses, you want to take off the majority of the leaves. I prepared this earlier and I do like the softening effect of the leaves around the flowers. It's almost as if you've taken all the leaves off the road so it's slightly undressed. But here, I'm going to just take with my hands there and