Small dried bouquet of curry plant

Name: Small dried bouquet of curry plant
Yield: 1 small bouquet
Ingredients: 15 to 20 flowering stems of curry plant, with the flowers just open; rubber bands and string; a few other dried flowers of your choice (lavender, ornamental grasses)

Updated on 10 October 2026

Makes: 1 small bouquet
Time: 15 min + 2 to 3 weeks drying
From: Curry plant

Ingredients

15 to 20 flowering stems of curry plant, with the flowers just open
rubber bands and string
a few other dried flowers of your choice (lavender, ornamental grasses)

Method

Cut the stems on a dry day, as long as possible, when the first flowers have just opened.
Strip the lower leaves and bundle the stems in fives with a rubber band: it stays tight as they shrink.
Hang the bunches upside down somewhere dark, dry and airy for 2 to 3 weeks, until the stems are hard.
Arrange them with the other dried flowers into a small bouquet and tie it with string.

Storing: Keep the bouquet out of full sun or the flowers will fade. It stays pretty for a year and smells faintly of curry.