Flowers and Plants

2024, December 8

Update: One of the bulbs has started to grow much faster than the others. The other 2 appear to not have grown much.

2024, November 29

Nevermind! I found a paperwhite growing kit at my local WinCo a while ago (Nov 18 or so) and thought it'd be neat to document it here as well.

2024, November 2

Possibly the last post i'll make till spring.

2024, October 20

Starting a new sheet of flowers. I might have go on hiatus within a few months for obvious reasons.

2024, October 14

The second ever completed frame! As before, here is a complete scan

2024, October 6

Found some Praire broomweed, and another new one here: Roosevelt weed!

That frame looks really populated and may be finished soon!

2024, September 28

Found some wild petuna, and a new one here: Canada goldenrod

2024, September 21

Do you remember? The 21st night of September?!

Look! 2 flower types! Unbelieveable! I got: Silverleaf nightshade, and praire broomweed. That's it, you can go home now.

2024, September 15

For the 1st time in months... a successful press!

I decided to press it *inside* of a book to absorb additional moisture, and it worked pretty well!

2024, September 7

New flower found: Rain lily! 3rd time's the charm, I hope...

2024, August 24

The prairie sunflower didn't press successfully due to the thickness.

I did find some bindweed, though. (UPDATE: Flowers didn't press properly...)

2024, August 11

texas why must you make it hard to find flowers in the summer

I got this prairie sunflower tho. look how small it is as well!

2024, July 27

Found a couple of silverleaf nightshades. Interestingly, one of the flowers had 4 petals.

2024, July 07

All flowers were pressed successfully.

I couldn't find any new flowers to press for now, though.

2024, June 29

The wild petuna yellowed and didn't make it, but the other flowers were pressed well.

Decided to discontinue the cup for now, especially due to a lack of room after reorganizing and putting out a bluetooth speaker.

I did find a few new flowers for this week, though.

2024, June 22

Decided to press flowers once again. Texas heat is makng this somewhat diffcult but still doable.

Got a good amount of flowers today. No flowers on the flower "cup" though.

2024, June 10

Guys, gals, and other pals, after exactly 3 months, I have completed the pressed flowers!

This will be on hiatus due to family reasons, and the fact that I am losing track of the days when school is out.

2024, June 02

Found a grand total of 2 flowers to press and 3 flowers to put in my "pot" (actually a cup). Yes, the cup is back!

2024, May 27

I managed to pick a few flowers this week for pressing.

2024, May 12

I did make sure to check on the paper and replaced as nescessary, and it paid off as non of my flowers really got moldy.

However, it's rainy, so I couldn't pick new flowers.

2024, May 5

The spreading hedge parsley came out mold free since I checked on it last Monday and replaced the parchment paper due to how wrinkled it is.

I have gotten a decent variety of flowers to press and add to the frame. Once again, I'll check back on them on Monday and maybe Wednesday.

The flower cup is empty since I forgot to get flowers for those.

2024, April 28

I finally started to press flowers again. Even though it rained yesterday, the flowers i picked, the spreading hedge parsley, was small, so there's less mold risk. Just in case, I'll check up on it on Tuesday or Wednesday and replace the parchment paper depending on how rippled it is.

Threw in some Pink evening primrose (one of my fav flowers) in the cup.

2024, April 21

The 1 flower did get moldy but I managed to catch that on Thursday, changed out the parchment paper, and ny Sunday it seemed to be fine.

It rained just the day before, so I won't pick any flowers because they might be wet, and if flowers are wet, they can mold.

Threw in some Pink evening primrose (one of my fav flowers) in the cup.

2024, April 14

Almost all of the flowers I pressed got moldy :(. Might be because I pressed thin flowers and thick flowers on the same sheet of parchment paper. I only managed to use the stemmy four-nerve daisy in the frame.

Threw in some butterweed in the cup.

2024, April 7

I managed to add almost all the flowers except for the dandelion that got some mold (gross). The flowers I managed to get were pretty colorful as well. I really need to get a binder + plastic protectors at some point, probabaly within a few weeks.

The cup looks sparse, with some perennial wall rocket and hairy buttercup...

2024, March 31

Happy Easter!

The flower frame is bursting with color from all the pressed flowers. I also managed to pick quite a decent amount of flowers to press and cut.

The dandelions in the cup became seedheads the week before but started to droop soon after.

2024, March 24

7 days have passed, and the dandellion turned pretty dark, and same went for the blue-field madder. No color was to be seen on the new flowers :(, tho interestingly the madder's paper had lots of yellow from what i assume to be pollen.

However, I managed to find quite a lot of flowers to press today.

As for the flower cup, the dandelions closed and are becoming seed heads, and I found buttercup and london rocket to add to the mix.

2024, March 17

After 8 days, I took off the books and took out the flowers that I pressed. The buttercup turned orange, while the pansy (blue) felt fragile, and even more so with the yellow flower (probably morning glory). I also found prairie verbina and dandelion to press.

I also have a cup that contained crowpoison where the cup's water was changed every 2 days and the flowers changed every 7 days, but I also decided to add in dandelion and blue-field madder to the mix to add a pop of color.

2024, March 10

Successfully pressed some crowpoison. I also picked 3 flowers, where none were pictured prior to pressing — perennial wall rockets, pansy (blue) and a yellow flower (probably morning glory).

I also found more crowpoison and perennial wall rocket to put in the cup

2024, March 03

Began to press flowers, 1st attempt deteriorated quickly as I didn't wait long enough or used enough weight to press the flowers (7 days with a tall stack of books). I picked some crowpoison and began pressing that with more weight. At some point I also decided to get a cup out where picked and cut flowers would go.