Thread: Rose Petals

interesting mik .
i have been going to try and cast some lucerne leaf and flower into a pen as a gift for a friend of mine .
i do know that to hold the green colour in lucerne a bit better a light spray with weak potassium solution just as it is cut works , some lucerne growers do it . we dont because some race horses are sensitive to it and it would stuff up our quality assurance .
when sprayed with the mix its called K-hay i think .
i wonder if a florist could shed any light on making flower colours more stable or a nursery man .
you could dunk em in beetroot juice that stuff is bomb proof once dried .

My wife has a rose fetish I think hehe, luckily we don't grow any so she is content with pictures (thank goodness) hehe, more possabilities open up all the time .May have to try some die on the petals to enrich the color, But good efforts so far cheers ~ John

Looks great MIK. Will be interesting to see if anyone can come up with a solution.

Interesting effect

They add a special powder when drying flowers professionally I thought - I know at my last wedding () they wanted around $500 to "preserve" ours. That could have included the wedding rip-off factor though

It will be interesting to see if they brown off in time, afterall, they are still organic.