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Dried & Pressed Flowers
susandonb

Drying Sunflowers

19 years ago

Hi, I saw a thread dated '04 on this topic and I have a question. The instructions taled about drying them in Borax and the person explaining how to do this said, "be sure the flowers are dry before starting" If I dry them on the plant the petals fall off. Does this mean just topical dryness? In other words, no visible moisture on them?

Thanks,

Susan

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