How to Add Color & Texture to Potpourri

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Susan Paxton for Expert Village and today we're mixing potpourri. We've added some rose petals, lemon verbena, lavender, wild orchids, rose leaves, and some baby rose buds that we had been drying to our mixture. Sometimes you can add oils. You can purchase oils specially made for potpourri. I don't think we're going to need to add any oils to this. The scent is very strong with the lavender. There's a lot of other things you could add to this if you had some lemon peelings, orange peelings would add a little zest to it. And almost anything you have at home like apples, oranges, lemons, I can't think of too, too many things that you could actually dry other than those, I'm sure there may be others maybe out in the yard, the rose leaves, the rose petals, different flowers that grow wild in your area. To dry them is very, very simple. All you really need to do is have a flat surface of any sort whether it be a cookie sheet, a piece of board, newspaper, anything that you could put it on that will help it be in a single layer."