Compositions from dried flowers, in particular, of roses – easy and refined way not only to decorate room interior, but also to keep in desktop vase for long frosty months part of summer. The main thing is to dry plants correctly.
It is required to you
- - fresh plants;
- - wire;
- - bank sand or kremnegel (silicate gel).
Instruction
1. Will be necessary: - roses; - tense linen rope; - dry dark room. Do not you know how to dry roses? The simplest way – drying on air. And, the sun is excluded unambiguously – plants have to dry in the dark, dry, well aired place. Take roses which you would like to dry and cut off the lower leaves from stalks. Then suspend plants for stalks flower down. Best of all for suspension to use the tense ropes. You watch that heads of the drying flowers did not adjoin.
2. Will be necessary: - roses; - fine sand; - cardboard or plywood box with deep water. Drying in sand. This method is also rather simple. Take bank sand, sift and well calcinate it on fire. It is possible to use purchased sand – for example, small quartz which usually is on sale in veterinary shops and it is intended for bathing of chinchillas or to the tag. Pour sand into box or box. The layer of sand has to have thickness several (5-7) centimeters. From above carefully put roses flower up. Accurately holding plants for stalks, gradually completely fill up them with sand so that flowers have been completely covered with it, at the same time remaining to stand vertically. In 2-3 weeks remove sand, having made openings in day of box. Do not throw out sand – it can be used some more years for drying of flowers.
3. It is required: - roses; - paper; - small cargo. It is way of drying of roses – the most romantic. It was practiced by heroines of love affairs to keep the flower presented to beloved. As the device for drying to romantic young ladies in love usually served pages of thick books. To make process more hi-tech, enclose plant between sheets of paper, shift them hygroscopic material (napkins, filter paper and so forth) and press down cargo. Paper will be moistened and it should be replaced from time to time. This way assumes that the dried-up plant will be flat, but not volume. Such flowers are good for use in flat collages, registration of original greeting cards with dried flowers. One more simplest way to dry rose is to enclose it between newspaper pages and to iron several times the hot iron.