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RE: Drying foliage/flowers for arrangements - Jimny14 - 28-09-2022
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Here are a couple of wreaths we made during lockdown to give me and the little one something to do. Don't know if these may be helpful for ideas.
RE: Drying foliage/flowers for arrangements - Scarlet - 28-09-2022
(28-09-2022, 08:12 PM)Veggie Wrote: It was only an idea for plants to use.Woven stems are expensive to buy. I looked beforeEucalytpus would be nice.
Can you make wreaths out of wire coat hangers - or woven stems - hazel/hops that sort of thing.
Any crabapples for colour? Hawthorn, rowan berries.
I dont grow hops
Eucalyptus is nicebut my tree isnt big enough and ive already used most if it forcut flowers
I had a fire accident and burnt my crab applw tree
Hawthorn is covered in-berries now / i need them in 8 weeks time, same as the rose hips.... I will continue to research on trying to dry/preserve them
RE: Drying foliage/flowers for arrangements - Scarlet - 28-09-2022
(28-09-2022, 09:31 PM)Jimny14 Wrote: Here are a couple of wreaths we made during lockdown to give me and the little one something to do. Don't know if these may be helpful for ideas.Ooh, I love the twig one! What stems did you use?
RE: Drying foliage/flowers for arrangements - Scarlet - 29-09-2022
(28-09-2022, 08:12 PM)Veggie Wrote: Any crabapples for colour? Hawthorn, rowan berries.Hmm, back to the original question.... yes I have lots - preserving them until December is the question
RE: Drying foliage/flowers for arrangements - Veggie - 29-09-2022
Isn't there something about spraying them with hair lacquer - not that I have any lacquer to try it out!
RE: Drying foliage/flowers for arrangements - Moth - 29-09-2022
Glycerine is what you need, Scarlet. My mum used to preserve berries this way for winter arrangements. There's a recipe and instructions here, about half way down the page -
https://www.emmitsburg.net/gardens/articles/adams/2006/preserving_flowers.htm
Mum used to get the glycerine from the chemist.
RE: Drying foliage/flowers for arrangements - Jimny14 - 29-09-2022
(28-09-2022, 11:14 PM)Scarlet Wrote:(28-09-2022, 09:31 PM)Jimny14 Wrote: Here are a couple of wreaths we made during lockdown to give me and the little one something to do. Don't know if these may be helpful for ideas.Ooh, I love the twig one! What stems did you use?
From memory it's mainly silver birch twigs as the thin ones are very flexible. Think I made the rframe work from ash and horse chestnut twigs. There's also teasel, cotoneaster and bodnant viburnum in there.
RE: Drying foliage/flowers for arrangements - Scarlet - 29-09-2022
(29-09-2022, 01:18 PM)Moth Wrote: Glycerine is what you need, Scarlet. My mum used to preserve berries this way for winter arrangements. There's a recipe and instructions here, about half way down the page -Thank you- I will have a good read later.
https://www.emmitsburg.net/gardens/articles/adams/2006/preserving_flowers.htm
Mum used to get the glycerine from the chemist.
RE: Drying foliage/flowers for arrangements - Scarlet - 29-09-2022
(29-09-2022, 01:19 PM)Jimny14 Wrote:Thank you - I'll check to have a look what I can find. I used to use my grape vine stems- but it died to lack of water(28-09-2022, 11:14 PM)Scarlet Wrote:(28-09-2022, 09:31 PM)Jimny14 Wrote: Here are a couple of wreaths we made during lockdown to give me and the little one something to do. Don't know if these may be helpful for ideas.Ooh, I love the twig one! What stems did you use?
From memory it's mainly silver birch twigs as the thin ones are very flexible. Think I made the rframe work from ash and horse chestnut twigs. There's also teasel, cotoneaster and bodnant viburnum in there.
RE: Drying foliage/flowers for arrangements - Farendwoman - 30-09-2022
Hops are nice .really easy to wind around whatever you’ve made the wreath out of. They make a good first base to poke the other stuff in.
I’ve made my wreaths out of red and yellow cornus (dogwood).