Another way of bringing the delights of your garden into the house and enjoying them the year round is to make 'Door Bouquets'. I hang new door bouquets on the outside entrance door every other month, I hang them over mirrors.... even on the bed post, and even on the inside of the bathroom door or wall. When you take a bath or shower the scents are intensified.
Unlike the more structured tussie-mussie, a door bouquet is an informal massing of dried flowers, leaves, herbs, and grasses, all tied together with a length of twine or string. The effect is spontaneous and random-looking.
If you don't have a garden, you can use wild flowers and grasses for this type of arrangement, or purchase dried at a craft store.
The important thing is to select a nice variety of textures and colors that work well against each other.
One example of such a combination might include flowers you have dried in silica gel, on their stems, such as peonies and lilacs. Another choice might be the herbs and the greens in a southernwood/lavender bouquet. (These are excellent on closet doors.)
Here are some instructions for a CLOSET DOOR BOUQUETS
This particular closet door bouquet contains herbs that deters moths and insects.
Take one full, long-stemmed sprig each of tansy, wormwood, southernwood, lavender, Silver King artemisia and rosemary. Air dry them first.
Arrange the dried sprigs in a bunch with the shortest stems on top.
Fasten them tightly together with a rubber band.
Knot a length of twine over the rubber band and wind the twine around the stems for about 1 1/2 inches to hide the rubber band. Knot twine a second time and make a bow or loop.
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Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.
- Thomas Wolfe
