You have to love hydrangeas. I don't know where my summer landscape would be without their puffy flower heads. And the beauty of the hydrangea flower head is that, being composed mainly of sepals, it lasts for a long time.
I'm a pretty lazy gardener, so it's not surprising that I've never tried any of the fancy methods for drying hydrangea flower heads. I've never even thought about trying any of them, really. I'm content to let the flower heads dry naturally -- right on the hydrangea plant, itself. Sure, they do turn brown; but in my opinion, they're still attractive in that color.
But if you're more ambitious in such matters than I am, you can use the "water drying" method, described in this article on how to dry hydrangea flower heads by Marie Iannotti, About.com's Guide to Gardening. Water-dried hydrangea flower heads will retain their "peak" color (if picked at the right time), rather than browning.
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