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How can I keep my flowers and lavender looking beautiful every day?

How do I dry my flowers but keep them looking pretty?

  • I want to keep my lilies pretty when they are dried but nothing I have tried with my roses seem to work. I need an easy cheap way to do this. Help!

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    Silica gel In general, the most satisfactory material for drying flowers at home is silica gel. Its initial cost is greater than that of borax-sand or borax-cornmeal combinations, but silica gel can be used over and over for many years. Plus, it dries flowers quickly, so it can be used to dry more flowers during a single season than the same quantity of a borax mixture. Table 2 shows approximate drying time for some of the more popular flowers when using silica gel. Silica gel is available under a number of trade names. It is white, but some types contain blue crystals that act as an indicator of the amount of moisture that has been absorbed. When these crystals are clear blue, the material is dry. As moisture is absorbed from the flowers, the crystals gradually turn pink. At that point, it is time to redry the crystals before using them again.

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Billiam's answer is a scam, unless you want a dry baseball diamond, not dried flowers. Feel free to report. I did. lol) There is no way of drying lilies that will keep them pretty. It has to do with moisture level in a flower, and think about how thick lily petals are. The thicker the petal, the moisture the flower, the less likely they'll dry. Now, roses are doable, but they won't look half as pretty as when they're fresh. I admit it. I gave up trying to dry flowers years ago, (too messy and they weren't as pretty as I wanted), but I know it was silicon based. You know those little sacks you get in vitamin supplements to keep the pills dry or the little packets in a nice pocketbook? Even those bigger packets you put where it's a bit damp, like a basement, and then you have to wash and dry them out to use again? All the same stuff and the same idea. You put the flowers in a container of that stuff and then pour more over it, until it's covered. Then you wait a week or two. (Maybe a month. It's been years.) I'm pretty sure you can get it at a craft store (Micheals or A.C. Moores), the kind that sells artificial flowers and floral hobby materials.

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