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Ox-eye daisies, drying them
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Posted by Wiggins z6Kentucky (My Page) on Thu, Apr 22, 04 at 8:30
My ox-eye daisies are just beginning to bloom and I want to dry some of them. Can they be laid on a screen with the stem going down or do I need to put them in glycerin to dry.
Thanks
Kathy |
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RE: Ox-eye daisies, drying them
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| I've never tried glycerine, with flowers, only foliage, so who knows? If you try it, tell us what happens. In general, there is a lot of shrinkage with daisy-like flowers. The only one I've had even semi-success with is Anthemis tinctoris, dried on a hardware-cloth screen with the stem hanging through, and dried very quickly in a hot barn loft. I think they work because the ray and disc flowers are the same color. |
RE: Ox-eye daisies, drying them
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| Hi-The only way I get a nice-looking daisy is by drying them in silica. As Neil said, they do shrink a lot, so I only do the largest ones. HTH. |
RE: Ox-eye daisies, drying them
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| I find that they dry much better when you cut off the stems. Maybe because as long as they still have a stem, they still have access to liquid... I dunno. I just lay the flowers on a bed of silica.... carefully bury them (not letting the silica change the shape of the petals) and then when they're dry, I glue them back to the stems. |
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