Pressing Flowers

Pressing flowers is a great way to preserve beautiful blooms and create works of art. Master Gardener Mary Heim shows how to do it. She says thinner flowers work best. She shows how to arrange the items in a flower press and then apply pressure. After several weeks the flowers will be flat and dry and can be removed and mounted for display. She shows several pressed arrangements she has done with flowers from her yard.

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