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[Lissy]

Do you use dry flowers or other plants for decorating? I do! Whenever I get a bouquet, I dry the flowers and them put them up somewhere as decor. When they get somewhat dusty, I just throw them out, to replace with a different piece.

[dwayne]

I love keeping dried/old flowers, well until they fall apart. What drying techniques do you use? I just hang them upside down.

[KrisNY]

I want to learn how to dry flowers. Can you explain the process? Where do you hang them upside down? Dark room? warm/cold?

[Lissy]

Hanging them upside down is one way to do it, it works well with roses. Smaller flowers can dry up just standing in a vase, their heads are not heavy, so they won't bend. Another thing you can do, for smaller flowers, is to flatten them between book pages - these can be framed later on, as a picture.

[KrisNY]

It's that simple? You just let them dry and get hard. I have tried this a couple of times and literally they just fall apart. They look nothing like the dried flowers you can buy in stores.
I will give it a shot again. I have some Chinese laterns that I love and would love to dry.

[1wahmom]

I have never tried drying my own flowers before. I do sometimes have the tendency to keep fresh flowers longer than they should be kept and they don't turn out looking anything like the dried flowers you can buy. I think I will try the hanging upside down method to and see what happens. Thanks for the tip!

[bammer]

air drying flowers or plants/leaves under the bed does the trick for me. placed in a container, they retain their original shape and doesnt easily fall off. try it!

[Lissy]

One trick you can do to make them keep a little longer and not fall apart is to spray the flowers with some hairspray. It is usually done when they are not yet completely dried.

[spiders]

I don't have any idea about that. Because I like to decorate with fresh flowers.

[herboo]

I like to decorate with fresh flowers. I am having a garden fully planted with different flowers. So every morning i do get fresh flowers to decorate.

[ladybird]

I like to use dry flowers to decorate the house, besides that i use indoor plants to decorate my house.

[tanya]

Dried plants or flowers are most beautiful things you can decorate a home or office by yourself. The naturally dried and preserved plants are not like fake plastic plants that looks glassy.