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In spring and summer, forests, fields, meadows, gardens, terraces and balconies are filled with life and color thanks to the resurgence of plants and flowers. Collect them with care to press them at home allows you to always enjoy its delicate beauty.
With them you can make small compositions that brighten cards, notebooks or bookmarks with their color and delicacy, or even more elaborate and complex paintings, a very popular and ancient art in Japanwhere it is known as oshibana.
It is advisable to select flowers that are not very large and that do not provide too much water, such as daisies, thoughts, mallows, violets or oleanders. To give more variety to the composition, stems such as lavender, mimosa or rosemary can be incorporated, and beautifully shaped leaves such as clover, fig or ginkgo leaves.
The optimal time to collect them is the evening of a sunny day. Then the flowers will have already lost part of their natural hydration and their drying will be faster. Flowers are living beings, it is important to respect them.
“We will take them without damaging the root and making sure that there are other specimens in the surroundings, so that they can reproduce the following year,” advises Benedetta Barzanò in her book pressed flowers (Ed. De Vecchi).
Keys for pressing
Once at home, flowers should be pressed as soon as possible to prevent them from spoiling. Before doing so, you must make sure that there are no insects inside. If so, it must be removed carefully, as well as any possible remains of earth.
They can be pressed with the stem or alone. In the latter case, they are placed upside down on a blotting paper (for sale in craft stores), which will absorb the moisture from the flower. If they have a bell-shaped shape (as occurs, for example, with the daffodil, the oleander or the foxglove), it is advisable to cut the base of the flower while holding carefully by the petals. That way the pressed flower will be flatter.
Options to dry them
pressing flowers allows to perpetuate its beauty in two dimensions, by flattening them and reducing their volume. The easiest way to do it is to introduce them between two pages of a thick bookcovered above and below with blotting paper (or alternatively several layers of absorbent kitchen paper).
It is a good option if flowers are pressed sporadically. But if you are looking for a more professional result, you can make a wooden press like the one in the photo above. Thanks to it, the pressure applied to the flower is firmer and more homogeneous.
In addition to the press, to increase the pressure between the different layers of blotting paper sheets of cardboard or newspaper can be used. If they are observed moist and the flower has not yet dried, they can be replaced with others with great care, ensuring that the flowers that are between the blotting paper do not move.
drying time it varies between each type of flower, so it is convenient to arrange flowers of the same or very similar species on the same blotting paper.
beauty in sight
To the remove moisture from flowers they last a long time. If not all the pressed flowers or leaves are used in a composition, the remaining ones can be put in different envelopes separated by species and stored in a dark and dry place.
To make it easier to identify them later, the type of flower is written on the envelope or a small sample is glued on it. As we gain experience and skill in this art, we will be able to create more difficult compositions.
A painting in which flowers of different sizes and shapes are intermingled, a frame for a photo or a box adorned with a flower garland pressed are some examples of the decorative possibilities of this simple and rewarding technique.
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