VIDEO: Make preserved flowers yourself

Making preserved plants by drying them

For drying you need borax, which is available in pharmacies, corn flour and an airtight container, which should be made of plastic if possible.

1. Make a mixture from 200 g borax and 400 g corn flour. Now put a 2 - 3 cm thick layer of this mixture into the container.
2. Now carefully place the flower or individual blossoms on this layer and cover them with the remaining powder mixture.
3. Then place the airtight container in a dark, cool and dry room for about 7-10 days. After that, you can carefully remove the preserved flowers from the container and remove the powder with a soft brush.

Flowers air dried

1. Flowers can also be preserved by hanging them upside down. The leaves are best removed because they don't look really good after drying. The flower or bouquet must be absolutely dry on the outside before hanging.


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2. Hang them in a dark, airy, dry, and warm room. If the flowers are particularly short-stemmed, you can lengthen and stabilize them with a wire. A little hair varnish is also sprayed on the flowers, on the one hand to promote the preservation and also to ensure a shine on the flower.
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Make preserved flowers with silica gel

1. Another tool for making preserved flowers is silica gel. It consists of a fine powder that is available in craft stores and some garden centers. Preservation with silica gel works in the same way as drying with borax and corn flour. Instead of borax and cornmeal, only silica gel is used here.
2. By the way, you can also preserve individual flowers in this way, simply place them upside down in the powder. Hydrangeas or roses are particularly well preserved with this method. With a little luck, you can get the silica gel at the pharmacy. Cat litter is said to have the same effect and is also much cheaper.

Produce preserved plants by pressing

1. Another method of preserved flowers is pressing. Many people may be familiar with this form of preservation from their childhood. However, this method does not preserve the original shape of the flower.
2. To do this, place the flower in question either as it is between the pages of a thick book or you put a blotting sheet on top of the flower as well as under it and then put it in A book. The blotting papers are intended to accelerate the drying process. It is important that you change the blotting paper every day and that you touch the flower as little as possible with your fingers.

Preserving flowers with glycerine

1. Glycerine can be used to preserve flowers or individual blossoms by filling a vase with a mixture of 2 parts water and 1 part 85% glycerol. This is where you put your flowers.
2. The glycerine is deposited in the cells and preserves the plant and the color of the flowers, with the water gradually evaporating. The flowers preserved in this way can be left in the vase. Since the flowers are usually quite crumbly, especially with the hydrangea, you can spray them with hairspray.
3. If twigs or berries are to be preserved with glycerine, make sure that the leaves are not brown and, above all, that they are still firmly in place. Remove the bark from the ends of the stems, cut the ends diagonally and place them in a mixture of 2 parts warm water and 1 part glycerine. If small glycerine droplets can be seen on the leaves, after about 10-14 days, the branches are preserved.