Preserving/Drying Flowers?
Question:I recieved a beautiful boquet of flowers bought at the florist for my birthday. I really want to preserve or dry them so I can keep them forever. What is the best way to do this that is easy and doesn't cost a lot of money?
Answers:
You can purchase inexpensively a granular drying product at most craft stores that you cover the flowers in and "cook" in the microwave. They won't fade or shrivel up like plain drying can do. You can also press them and then put them in picture frames.
take them from the water and bind all the stems together and then use a clothes pin to hang them upside down on a coat hanger, then hang from your bathroom shower curtain rod. Within a few days they should be dry.
Laminate them . GENTLY lay out the flower, and put a piece of wood on top of it, and put weight on top of the wood for a few days. Then, laminate them.
Put the petals of the flowers in between a book for a few weeks.
The best way to dry flowers is to hang them upside down.
If you have a deep freezer I would put them in there. My friend put her corsage from her 7th grade prom in there and it looked just the same as the day she got it even a few years later. :)
Doc.Shell is right. Someone had told me the same way.
Showers aren't dry places so don't hang them there. dark dry places are the best places to hang them.Some species don't dry or preserve well, be prepared to lose them.Maybe dry them and use them as potpourri..add scented oil when they need them...they'll last longer as potpourri in a bowl than as stemmed flowers.
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