Easy Ideas for Decorating With Hydrangeas in Your Fall Decor
September 10, 2025
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Ideas for how to use beautiful hydrangea stems in your fall decor.
Hydrangeas are one of my absolute favorite flowers, and I think the fall
season is when they are the most beautiful! I've used both fresh and
dried hydrangea blooms in my seasonal decor over the years.
This time of year is when they truly shine! Most panicle hydrangeas (more
cone-shaped blooms instead of mop heads) turn a lovely shade of red or pink as
the temps get colder in the autumn months.
Around here, the change from white or green to that blush color is the first sign that fall is on its way.
I've planted so many hydrangea bushes at both this house and our last one.
They are so full and beautiful in our landscaping, but I also love to display
the cut flowers inside throughout the summer and fall.
Just yesterday, as I was decorating the house for the season, I was
contemplating looking for some new faux florals for our front door (say that
three times fast).
And then it hit me...duh! I sometimes forget I have them at my disposal.
:)
The bonus with this flower is that they are just as pretty when they dry up as
they are freshly cut!
This year I'm using a hanging basket on our front door, and I filled it some
dried blooms for our fall door decor:
Check out my cute creeper in the window. 😂
One of my favorite ways to display them was in my
DIY decorative wood trough
I made years ago:
It was the perfect, subtle fall touch.
You don't need to do anything special to dry your hydrangea blooms. Either
cut and place them in water to enjoy, and then just let the flowers dry out
in the vase:
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Or you can simply cut them and place them wherever, they will obviously dry
out quicker this way.
I placed some smaller stems in a bowl yesterday and they still look fresh
today:
By tomorrow they will start to dry up. There's no water in that bowl, just
some moss I had in there from spring.
I tucked the stems into the moss in the bowl:
One of my absolute favorite fall mantels was the simplest:
The soft blush and green blooms were particularly striking against the white
backdrop.
These were from a bush at our old house and were gorgeous enough without
going crazy with decor:
I have an old glass cloche that I wanted to utilize in our fall decor this
year, so I grabbed some
wet floral foam and cut off a small piece:
And just tucked some smaller stems into the foam. I pushed the whole thing into the cloche and then filled in around the
glass edge with some soft reindeer moss:
I was worried the wet foam would leave condensation on the inside of the
glass, but so far so good! I'll be interested to see how long these stay
fresh.
If you prefer your blooms to stay fresh and full, try out this easy trick when they start to wilt. I've made them last for weeks this way!
While I was at it, I clipped some longer stems for the
beautiful (huge!) vase
on our dining table:
I think these gorgeous flowers are best enjoyed piled high and full!
I love
adding them around the house. They make it look like I did way more work than
I actually did. :)
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