How to press flowers
Pressing flowers and other interesting finds from the garden is simple to do and well worth the effort.
You need:
an old exercise book
a stack of books for weight
a selection of plants picked on a fine day. For our first attempt we gathered:
dandelion flowers, purplish clover flowers, grass with seed heads, hedge leaves, nasturtium flowers and leaves from a neighbours tree.
Next steps:
Place your flowers and other garden finds carefully between the pages of the exercise book.
Close the exercise book and place beneath a stack of books
Leave for a few days before checking on progress.
Gift ideas for pressed flowers:
Make a beautiful bookmark or special thank- you card using your preseed flowers
If you want to find out more about pressing flowers the following website is very useful:
