flowers-help!!!!

flutterbyuk25

Hey all

I need to pick your lovely OS brains.

My beautiful best friend got married yesterday, and she gave me the flowers from the top of her cake as a keep-sake (it's a little tradition we have in our friendship group!). There are 6 real gerberras (sp?) in it, all pinned into oasis.

I want to preserve at least one of the flowers to keep, how would I go about this?

I can only thing of flower pressing but I haven't done this in around 20 years so not sure if there is a better way!!

TIA

x

Seakay

Found this on another forum:

I wanted to know if there is a way to dry or preserve a wedding bouquet of gerbera daisies. I have been told by some the you can not dry gerbera daisies like you can other flowers. I would really like to keep my bouquet in tact. Thanks.
Gerbera’s will not dry well. You will loose the color in the drying process. One way of preserving flowers which can be costly is to freeze dry them. Special drying equipment is used to dry flowers. I know they have had good results in preserving roses, but I don’t know about Gerbera. Try googling preserving/drying flowers perhaps there is someone in your area that does this sort of preservation.

But Googled and found this method using a microwave and silica gel:

http://www.ehow.com/how_5571976_preserve-gerbera-daisies.html

jamanda

I think you can do them in glycerine but it was a long time ago when I did some and I can't remember much about it now.