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Pressing flowers

  • 19-08-2010 6:29pm
    #1
    jos28
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    My Mam died last week and myself and my sister kept some of the flowers from the funeral.Not many just a few lilies/roses from the display we bought for her coffin. We were thinking of pressing and framing them. Does anyone have any better ideas or know of anyone who could do something creative with them. Should we press them immediately ?


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  • #2
    looksee
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    Its a lovely idea, but lilies and roses are not the best to press, they are too bulky and fleshy. You could maybe dry them. Roses are easy to dry, hang them upside down somewhere airy and dry, I don't know about lilies though you might need to use dessicating powder. You put the flower in a box of powder and it takes out all the moisture and dries the flower. Have a look at this blog http://bellatryx.blogs.ie/2006/09/19/dried-flowers/


  • #3
    artieanna
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    Sorry for your loss jos28 and it is a nice idea. Maybe theres a flower shop near you that may dry the flowers for you. Heres a how to do it yourself link I would say results may vary also

    http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/plantsci/landscap/h1037w.htm

    Just this summer I started to press flowers between sheets of tissue paper in thick books. Its not as simple or as successful as it sounds. I have found the following:

    if the petals are not fairly well held in the centre the flowers come apart and you end up with loose petals.
    Some flowers go mushy if they are thick fleshy with alot of sap.
    Some flowers also lose their colour or may even go brown and straw-like you may need watercolour paints to restore this.
    Some lose shape and form completly.

    Never use a good book as the sap from the flowers will cause the pages where the flowers are dried to bluemould or use tissue next to flowers and plastic next to book page.


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