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What are your dried green 'staple' plant or plants ?
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Posted by cosmos6MA 6MA (My Page) on Wed, Jul 10, 02 at 22:11
| You know, something that dries very easily, is used often, is used as something it is not. Example. I started to dry ferns. I'm not sure what type they are. They are about 3-4 ft high, with green fronds and found in my yard and the woods beside my yard. I cut most of the leaves off of the stem, but after I had cut one side off, Iturned it sideways and it looked like a landscape picture with a line of different size trees in it. I also noticed that if I cut the skinny tip off of the frond at about 2 inches it looks like a miniture Christmas tree. I am also drying other green leaves,like sumac, bluberry bush, ( have the green berries drying in an uncovered jar) and others that look interesting but I have no idea what they are.
So what greens, or other non flowers are you guys drying now to use later ? |
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RE: What are your dried green 'staple' plant or plants ?
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Well, although they are not technically green, Artemesia is one of my staples. Another Favorite is the leaves of the vine known as Cardinal Climber. They look like a Palm. I love all the Ferns when dried too.
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| Leaves of scented geraniums are versatile. They hold up well and come in many shapes and sizes. While I don't think the lime-scented variety is particularly attractive as a growing specimen, the leaves, when dried, are kinda "freaky" (in a good way). |
RE: I forgot one!
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| Oh, I thought of another one that I use as a staple...Gingko Biloba leaves. They make a great background for any other pressed flower arrangemnts |
RE: What are your dried green 'staple' plant or plants ?
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| I like carrot tops,the leaves of smaller leaf hostas, and one of my favorite is something my aunt calls penny grass. It grows prolificly for her, but she is in zone five and I am in zone 4. She gave me a start and it is enough , but dwindles some years.I mostly have done pressed flower cards and like the seed heads from blue grass also. |
RE: What are your dried green 'staple' plant or plants ?
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- Posted by Josh z8 GA (My Page) on
Mon, May 12, 03 at 6:38
| My collections lately: Almost any small new leaves before they harden & expand: Tiny little vine tendrils from Clematis. All parts of the Japanese Climbing Fern. New chartreuse foliage from Spirea Goldmound. New red crinkly Rose foliage. New purple foliage from Lorapetalum. Almost all-white leaves from variegated plants like Osmanthus heterophyllus and ivies. Also bits of my houseplants like Polyscias although it's almost impossible to press nicely...still, it's so frilly! And "weeds" are wonderful...young bits of Equisetum, violets, creeping jenny, geranium leaves & seedpods...I'll never in this lifetime use all I gather but what fun! jo |
RE: What are your dried green 'staple' plant or plants ?
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| I love using the red and bronze japanese maple leaves. |
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