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Flowers and Plants
Flowers are cool. You can press them, pick them, cut them, and a few other things. But those 3 are what I like to do.
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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.
Spreading hedge parsley
Cup with pink evening primrose
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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.
Flower frame
Cup with pink evening primrose
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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.
Flower frame
Pink evening primrose to be pressed
Flower cup with butterweed (perennial wall rocket was removed after the pic was taken)
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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...
Flower frame
Prairie verbina to be pressed
Garden petuna to be pressed
Pink evening primrose to be pressed
Stemmy four-nerve daisy to be pressed
Flower cup
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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.
would you look at all those flowers
Strict Blue eyed grass to be pressed
Hairy Buttercup to be pressed
Tenpetal thimbleweed to be pressed
Smallflower desert-chicory
Flower cup
The dandelion seed head, taken 2024, Mar 27.
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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.
The newly pressed flowers, framed
Tenpetal thimbleweed to be pressed
Strict Blue eyed grass to be pressed
Stiff Greenthread
Stiff Greenthread, pressed face down to preserve the actual flower better
Buttercup
Flower cup, including closed dandelions, crowpoison as usual, and a few new flowers.
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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.
The newly pressed flowers, framed
Prairie verbina to be pressed
Dandelion to be pressed
Flower cup with dandelions, crowpoison, and a strand of blue-field madder
Blue-field madder closeup
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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
The pressed crowpoison, framed (photo taken later)
Cup of crowpoison and perennial wall rocket
Perennial wall rocket closeup
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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.
The pressed flower (unidentified)
The same flower, framed
Crowpoison to be pressed
