How can I dry flowers at home?

Put your flower in a dish with the contents of one of those packets that comes in new shoes (silica gel) microwave for 10 seconds. The silica gel removes all of the moisture rapidly, leaving the blossom as fresh looking as when it was fresh! Any blossom will work, whereas traditional drying methods only work for heartier blooms, and not delicate ones, like orchids, etc...

How can I dry flowers at home?
Buy a plastic cakebox that has an airtight seal. Buy two colanders with short legs that fits stacked into the cakebox when the cake box is upside down, providing a platform an inch or so above the cakebox bottom (actually the top, the cakebox is used upside-down). You must be able to close the cakebox with the colander inside with the cakebox's base used as a lid. The buy some DAMP-RID or some other dampness removing chemical, usually at a hardware store. This chemical is nasty, avoid touching it and do not get it wet. Pour some of this (granulated) material into the cakebox under the top colander on the lower colander, taking care not to get the stuff on the top colander. Put the flowers to be dried on the top colender, suspended above the chemical. CLose the box and wait a few days. Carefully remove the dried flowers, then remove the stacked colenders carefully pour out the (now) accumulated water in the box. The chemicial will dissolve as it draws out the water and falls through to the cakebox.





This method has the advantage of not moving the flowers or heating them during drying.
Reply:i just hang them upside down in front of a window. i used to press them in books.
Reply:Expose the flowers to warm, dry air in a DARK location. This is the oldest and simplest method, and is commonly referred to as the "hang and dry" method, a method name somewhat misleading because some flowers are air-dried on wire racks (peonies for example). It was the method used here in America by the English colonists. The majority of the flowers in the dried arrangements displayed at Williamsburg, Mount Vernon and other historic houses were preserved in this manner. The plant material to be dried is collected, tied, and simply hung upside down in a warm, dark, dry place. The darkness helps preserve the flower color. Flowers dried in this manner should be cut just before being fully open.





Examples of flowers that preserve well by this method are baby’s breath, cattail, statice, celosia, dock, goldenrod, heather and pussy willow. Flowers dried in this manner are extremely stiff once dried. Blue and yellow flowers retain their colors when air dried, but pink flowers fade. Roses and peonies shrink somewhat when air-dried.
Reply:I hang them upside down in the garage. It gets warm enough in there to dry them out, and not damage them.
Reply:i guess put then in your window so the sun hits them*that's what i did, by accident.....lol
Reply:dunk the blooms in glycerine (as a preservative) then hang them upside down to dry. this will prevent the stems from getting crooked and the petals will stay put
Reply:Hang them upside down and spray them with hairspray. Always works!