Pressed flowers can be framed, put in a photo album or scrapbook, or used to personalise phone or laptop cases. For the more experienced crafters they can be used in resin projects or even as raw materials in printmaking or fabric dying. When using pressed flowers in papercrafts, make sure to use acid free archival paper to slow down the degradation process. If you want to combine with family photos, drawings or newspaper clippings you can buy “paper preservation spray,” or “deacidification spray” to neutralise the PH and preserve your crafts. The last or the fourth stanza is narration of what pleasure the author had gained after watching the daffodils dancing that day. Whenever the author, Wordsworth felt sad or alone, the picture of dancing daffodils came to his mind and it was like he regained life’s treasure. How valuable the solitude is! At the end, author’s heart was content in joining the daffodils’ dance. Rhyming Scheme Ahead of aquilegia the crocus is the very first flower I put in my flower press in spring. Small and unassuming crocuses look great displayed in large multiples arranged in rows or randomly. Conclusion Professionally, we would leave them for a good month but you can probably get away with a couple of weeks before you take them all out. Then you’ve got the fun of recreating the flowers and designs.”

Drying your flowers will keep your bouquet most true to the form it's currently in. Once dried, you can leave your flowers as a bouquet, frame them in a shadow box, or turn them into a wreath. Learning how to press flowers without creating flower origami takes a little trial and error, as the transformation is more dramatic than drying. If you’re planning on pressing a special occasion bouquet, have a few practice presses with garden flowers, or a less sentimental bouquet. For more delicate blooms such as orchids or lilies, pressing is the recommended method. Pressing Flowers With Books This process does take a couple of days, but the flowers look delightful while drying and can add a wonderful old-world cottage feel to your home. Many learn how to dry flowers using this method because the process itself is so charming.

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The warm air of the dehydrator creates a wonderful fluffy effect for dried thistles and cornflowers. If you’re using your flowers in food preparation or decoration, this method is recommended (and of course, make sure your flowers are fit for consumption before trying this!) Drying Flowers in a Vase Asides from the microwave itself, this method does also require additional equipment such as silica sand and a microwave safe container you won't be using for food again. Silica Sand for Drying Flowers Flowers with a large bud such as peonies or roses will massively benefit from being dried rather than pressed as they are more likely to distort in the pressing process. The same is true for flowers such as hydrangeas. Any flower with a large bloom made up of lots of small petals will be difficult to arrange into a press without misshaping some of the petals.

A bubbly mushroom shape in appearance, surprisingly, muscari press well and offer a silhouette like no other flower. Aquilegia Third stanza is the continuation of how along with the flowers, the water in the lake too moved, as if they were competing with each other in the dance. But the glee flowers won and the sparkling lake lost. Finding their playfulness, the author couldn’t stop himself from joining their company. The author kept staring at both of them, wondering how his sad mood changed into a happy one. The daffodils and lake’s dance bought him a wealth that he couldn’t deny. The mesmerizing flowers gained a place in his heart he couldn’t understand but felt. You can also buy flower presses for this purpose, but I find a phone book is equally effective and cheaper! Catherine’s top tip:"Some people make a really massive mistake of thinking they have to push loads of weight down on the flowers to make it press well, but that’s not the case – in fact, you can really damage the flowers doing that. Just put enough gentle pressure to flatten the petals without squashing them. Placing a pile of books on top is lovely but you don’t need to sit on the pile of books." Designing the flowers Put them somewhere lovely and warm. Somewhere like an airing cupboard or nice, sunny conservatory is ideal.

The words used in the poem like crowd, fluttering, dancing, stretched, heads, company, etc. are giving the flowers, daffodils human qualities. This method, while fast, does yield a slightly different result to the others. Rather than press the flowers entirely flat, the pressed flowers can come out with ripples in them; rather like water damaged paper. Different parchment papers can yield slightly different results, but the rippling effect is often hard to avoid. The uneven heat distribution from the iron can also lead to uneven bleaching of the flowers, with some areas losing far more colour than others. Alliteration: Alliteration is the repetition of similar sounds, is applied for the word ‘h’, in the words – high and hills. Place something heavy on top of the book, and wait around two to four weeks and voila! You are done.

The first four lines of each stanza has a rhyming scheme of ‘ABAB’. While the ending two lines, are the rhyming couplet. Each stanza makes use of ‘Enjambment’ which converts the poem into a continuous flow of expressions without a pause. In the first stanza, the writer finds himself as a lonely cloud floating over the valley. The author describes himself ‘lonely’ because his brother John was dead, leaving him alone and sad. Then he encountered the yellow daffodils beside the lake. The flowers were swaying here and there due to the heavy breeze, as if they were dancing happily.In short, there isn't one “best method.” This really depends on what you plan on doing with your bouquet, what kind of flowers you have, and how you wish to preserve them. If you want to keep them three dimensional, with long stems- opt for air or vase drying, depending on your blooms. If you wish to frame them for longevity, opt for a book or flower press, depending on the space you have available and the size of bloom you are pressing. Hopefully our guide has given you the advice and resources to make this choice. Many guides will recommend only using heavy books, but we’ve found that you can use almost any book - just place heavier books on top! Just make sure the weight is evenly distributed across the area of the book being used to press.