How to Use Lavender in Potpourri

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Susan Paxton for Expert Village and today we're talking about potpourri. For a few minutes I like to talk about lavender. Lavender is actually a flower and I guess some people would consider it a weed, depending on where you live. Each one of these little tiny things are on a tall stalk and hundreds and hundreds of them grow on each stem of lavender. There are so much you can do with just lavender. I get it fresh and I dry it usually on a stem. I just hang it upside down, let it dry in the corner until it's well dried and then just run my hand down the stem and all the little lavender flowers come off. You can use lavender for so many different things. I like taking little bags and filling it up with lavender, putting them in my dresser drawers, putting it in my linen closet. You can also use that same little bag and put it in your bath water. I dry the lavender by hanging it upside down in a clump, tie it all together and hang it on a hook off away from everybody. When it's dried, I just pull the little flowers off of the lavender and they added lavender, it's such a soothing fragrance, that they added lavender to a lot of the fabric softeners, a lot of the soaps now days. All of the aromatherapy of course they have taken advantage of the scent of lavender. So you can do a lot of things."