To make your own dried lavender flowers for pot-pourri or sachets, get up early! The best time to pick lavender is before the flowers open. Choose a day that is going to be sunny and dry...humidity will not work.

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Cut the stem about 5 or so inches below the flowers. Put 12-15 stems together in a bunch and join them together with a rubber band, a few inches from the end of the stems. Rubber bands will hold their shape as the stems dry and thin, so you won't…