How to keep the beauty of a flower to use it for dry floristry or herbarium?
For each flower there is a special way of drying.
Flowers pansies
Take for drying on 3-4 day flowering . Pressing a finger to the middle of the flower, give it the desired position, after which the petals are placed on the wool layer, isolating them with a soft paper from the neighboring. It is very important to monitor the petals to be dry, otherwise in the fields of the rain drops of the color will be spoiled.
Petals of large flowers are arched separately and used to create a background and the like. Very rich, deep color give dark blue or purple petals. This color is retained for many years, but the light-colored petals will be raged in a few years.
To put a whole astra flower
Lay it on cotton flat down , Cover the wool pieces from above and place for several hours under the press 20-25 kg. After that, the Astra is dried in the herbarium grid at a temperature of 25-30 ° C.
If there is no herbarium grid, you can put the flower in parts , Separating the beams of the petals and putting them on the newspaper paper, following the beams not disintegrate. Dry petals under cargo 10-12 kg.
In the future, when compiling the composition, individual parts are mounted in a whole flower. Dried asters retain the color for several years well.
If you want to whole to dry the terry velvets
Inflorescences need to cut without leaves. The flower is placed on a cotton layer, isolating a row of petals with thin cotton knolls. Drying velvets in herbaric grids.
Obraveling flowers on the petals, you can put them on and under the press . For thin petals there will be enough small cargo weighing 3-5 kg. Paper gaskets must be changed daily. After drying, the color is preserved for 2-3 years.
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