Harvesting and preserving flowers from your garden is a great way to enjoy them year-round. Flowers can be preserved by drying or pressing. Preserved flowers can be used in many ways in your home and garden. To learn more about preserving flowers and how to use them, join the University of Illinois Extension for the Flower Preservation Workshop. At this workshop, participants will learn about the flowers that best work for preservation. Also, we will discuss the different methods of flower preservation.

As part of the workshop, participants can use preserved flowers to make two projects: a pressed flower bookmark and a sachet.

The Flower Preservation Workshop will be held on Thursday, September 26, at 6 p.m. at the U of I Extension – Stephenson County, located in Building R at Highland Community College, 2998 W. Pearl City Road, Freeport IL. Registration is required by calling the University of Illinois Extension at (815) 235-4125 or online at go.illinois.edu/jsw. Registration is $10.