Advice please on dried flowers

[WPG]

This is the first year I've grown some flowers especially for drying - poppy and nigella seed heads, briza maxima quaking grass, and the straw flower helichrysum. I'm quite pleased with the results, though the helichrysum flower heads mostly fell off their stalks so I've had to do some first aid with bendy ties. I also grew Honesty for their seed heads, but they didn't dry properly and went mouldy.

I'd like to grow some more varieties for drying next year - has anyone got any ideas? Also, I'm not sure what the best technique for drying them is. I'd hung them upside down in bunches in the shed, but maybe that's why the Honesty went mouldy? Would I be better to dry them in the house over a radiator?

[veggiechicken]

I used to dry them indoors, hung upside down from curtain rails!
Honesty, I leave on the plant until the silver discs form, then uproot the plant.
Statice is good for drying.

[mothhawk]

Clary sage (salvia sclarea) and larkspur dry well and keep their colours. I found the same thing with the helichrysum, the heads and stalks part company every time.

[WPG]

Thanks for the advice VC and Mothhawk. Glad it's not just me who has the problem with helichrysum stems.

[veggiechicken]

Hydrangea heads are good too