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How to preserve your summer flowers for the entire year
March 1, 2008 |
Summer is one season everybody would love. The rich array of flowers that blossom during this part of the year would drive anyone crazy. The varied colors and the refreshing fragrances are just something that adds a level of refinement to this season and its beauty and ambience. But then it is sad that these flowers are not available all through out the year.
But now you can actually preserve the ambience of these brilliant blossoms all through out the year even far beyond the summers. You can dry some of the flowers to enjoy them all through out the year just in-doors in your drawing room. There are a few tricky ways using which you can accomplish this little flowery mission. If you live in an area of high humidity, a place where you feel that you are actually living in a frying pan, you will be just amazed to find the quality of the dried flowers you will be able to procure at home it self. The shapes will surely remain intact with the colors all vibrant and shimmering.
Don’t pick on any one kind of flower; try out all the kinds you can possibly pick from your garden or the nearby neighborhood. While you cut the flowers that you think you will dry, see that are completely dry and don’t have any wetness or even a sprinkle of dew. Gather three to four flower blossoms with intact petals together tried with a rubber band.
Roses are an all time favorite for the purpose, others like larkspur, achillea, celosia, gomphrena, etc. Dried Flowers do not only include dried blossom but dried buds, foliages, fully open flowers, and even stems. But the only prerequisite is that they should not be too much in the withering state. At least the petals shouldn’t be that delicate as they would just fall off.