Pressing flowers at home is a delightful and creative way to preserve the beauty of nature. This timeless craft involves carefully flattening and drying flowers, allowing them to retain their shape, color, and intricate details for long-lasting enjoyment. By using a wooden flower press you can easily press flowers at home. The process typically involves selecting fresh flowers at their peak, placing them in the press, and applying gentle pressure.
Learn about the technique of flower pounding to create beautiful hammered flower prints on fabrics or paper.
Learn how to make 3 basic mullein salves that are helpful for dry skin, minor scrapes and scratches, and a chest rub for coughs.
Our native passionflower produces yummy fruit called maypops, the leaves have herbal properties & the beautiful flowers attract pollinators!
Make beautiful nature art using sun print paper and natural items you can find in your own backyard. We'll show you how to create these gorgeous prints.
Learn how to print fabric with flowers. This kid-friendly craft project can be done using supplies you may already have!
Borage is a beautiful annual flower that's popular with gardeners, mostly for its abundant display of showy blue flowers. It also happens to be both edible and medicinal, and it has a number of uses
Here's an easy tutorial that shows you how to make beautiful pressed flower art with basic dollar store frames and watercolor paper.
As you all know by now, I love painting with watercolor. I have shared my
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Nasturtiums are a herbaceous annual flowering plant best known for their peppery taste, stronger than watercress, and perfect for salads, but most have no idea about nasturtium medicinal uses. Nasturtiums are annual flowers grown both
These 51 most beautiful places in Colorado will amaze you. I include cities, mountains, lakes, waterfalls, and more, with a map and photos!
If you ever wanted to learn how to dry flowers but didn't know where to start, we have everything you need to know.
Planting perennials in the fall is a simple way to enjoy a larger, more stunning garden for longer. Benefit from a colorful and vibrant garden all year.
The best way to preserve the beauty of the garden is with a flower press. With just a few materials and tools, you can make your own that looks as beautiful as it is functional.
How to use Red Clover herb to take care of your health naturally. How I use red clover for menopause symptoms. Here's how to harvest, preserve and use red clover in your daily healthcare routine.
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This is a lovely collection of Nature Themed Clipart Frames! These beautiful free vintage frames include wreaths, leaves, flowers and fruit.
Tips and techniques for drawing flowers with a pen.
Do you have calendula growing in the garden? Learn how to preserve it and have your own dried calendula flowers for use in tea, salves, and more!
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Calendula oil is an easy-to-make, versatile and potent addition to any home medicine cabinet. It can be used topically for cuts and scrapes due to its anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory properties, but it's also useful internally.
These hardy perennials can thrive in part sun, full sun or shade, high heat or freezing temperatures, and still bloom beautifully every year.
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these free crochet vines patterns are a great way to start learning how to crochet vines and learn its textures, prints and stitches!
Here are over 10 pretty and useful things that you can make with calendula flowers!
Come learn how to grow, harvest, dry, and use calendula: a beautiful and edible herb that attracts pollinators and has many medicinal uses!
These invasive plants are all beautiful so you will be tempted to plant them in your garden. Find out which invasive species are not worth the hassle.
Adansonia grandidieri (Grandidier's Baobab) is a magnificent tree with a massive cylindrical trunk topped with a flat-topped crown with a ...
Use these tips to grow sweet pea flowers (Lathyrus odoratus) from seed in your garden in spring or a greenhouse in fall. With the right growing conditions and care, these old-fashioned flowers will provide beautiful blooms throughout the summer.
Learn how to make skeleton leaves with this step-by-step guide from HST! You'll learn how to remove leaf tissue so that their "veins" show.
Learn about the technique of flower pounding to create beautiful hammered flower prints on fabrics or paper.
Learn how to press flowers, which is a beautiful way to preserve your favorite blooms even after the gardening season is over.
Have you ever tried to press your own flowers? Maybe, the traditional way, in an old book with something heavy on top to weight it down? Or, maybe you’ve even built your own flower press? But, have you ever pressed flowers the quick and easy way – in the microwave? This is a project I’ve been wanting to try for months. I first saw it mentioned on Instagram and decided to give it a try! If you like instant gratification and projects that don’t take a long time, this one’s for you! Why press flowers? It's a great way to preserve flowers that you don’t
There are a great many reasons why you should consider growing borage in your garden. It is useful both while it is in growth, and as a crop for harvesting.
This wildflower is a Texas Bluebonnet. Photo taken in Ellis County, Texas on April 16, 2010. I took a lot of close-ups of these but chose this one to post because of the way the light is shining through the flower.
Harvesting and drying lavender is easy to do, and promotes more blooms! Come learn how to harvest lavender flowers, plus several ways to dry and use them.
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