as COOL as a (ornamental) cucumber

I wanted my beads to softly float above my snowball posy. If I glued the beads to some of the flowers it would just disappear in the mass of twigs and flowers.

Use all three methods to dry hydrangeas to get three very different textures to use in design work.

Break the sturdy twig on the scribe line.

When you need to keep a tiny stem hydrated this is just what you need.

I purchase a huge roll of sisal string to use... sometimes as string, but mostly I unravel it for the fibers

Hydrangea, when cultivated as a cut flower rather as a plant it is often revered to as Hortensia