How to Dry Flowers Quickly at Home

There is nothing more mesmerizing and delightful than observing gorgeous dried flowers and looking for a way to comprise those flowers in projects and crafts. After preservation, the color in dried flowers remains the same. In order to maintain this, you must dry flowers the right way, and there are a few flower drying methods to achieve this.

How To Dry Flowers

You can easily dry flowers at home to preserve their color, shape, and beauty to use in decorating and for your art projects. There are various methods of drying flowers, like drying flowers upside-down, drying flowers in the oven or in the microwave, using a food dehydrator.

Flowers for Resin

You can use dried flowers in many things. Many artists out there are drying flowers for jewelry and closeting them in resin! Do you wanna know how to dry flowers for resin? Let’s see the proper ways to dry flowers depending on the look you want.

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How To Dry Flowers Upside-Down

1. Harvest your flowers at peak bloom.

2. Find a dark place you can hang your flowers that won’t be disturbed by children or pets.

3. Gather your flowers into small bouquets.

4. Tie up the stems together with thread.

5. Hang the drying flowers upside down for two weeks.

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How To Dry-Flower Using Microwave

1. Pick the flowers you want to dry.

2. Lay a paper towel on your microwave plate.

3. Put each flower (blossom or petal) on the paper towel, reminder, it shouldn’t be touching any other flower.

4. Put another paper towel on top of the flowers.

5. Lay a piece of paper on top of the paper towel.

6. Put something microwavable on top of everything. Use something which would be hefty enough to press the flowers so that there is equal pressure on the flowers or petals.

7. Set the Microwave at about half power for 1.5 – 2 minutes until they come out crisp, dry, and colorful. 

How To Dry Flowers In The Oven

1. Decide which flowers you will dry.

2. Cut the stems off of your flowers right at the base of the bloom or bud.

3. Find a drying rack and spread your flowers over it, ensuring they are not overlapping at all.

4. Heat your oven to 200 degrees.

5. Put your flowers in for 2 hours, and start checking them after 1.5 hours.

6. When the edges of the petals feel dry to the touch, take the petals out and put them somewhere to cool. If you dry them in the oven for too long, they will get crumbly and lose color.

7. If you have different kinds of flowers in the oven at once, check them, as they may have different drying times.

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How To Dry Flowers By Food Dehydrator

1. Pick full bloom flowers to dehydrate.

2. Clip the stem and small leaves off.

3. Arrange your flowers on your dehydrator trays, ensuring they are not overlapping at all.

4. Turn on your dehydrator.

5. Rotate trays 2-4 times during your drying time.

6. Take out after 24 hours. Again, some may be ready; other varieties may need to stay a bit long.

What Types Of Flowers Work Well For Drying?

Few examples of flowers that work best for drying:

• Sturdy blossoms: Small and sturdy blooms like hydrangeas, amaranth, lavender, baby’s breath, and straw-flower do well with air-drying because they have less water content than other flowers and hold up well during the lengthy drying process.
• Flowers with numerous layers: Large flowers or flowers with open-faced petals like roses, tulips, zinnias, etc., can resist the heat of the oven or microwave.
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• Smaller flowers: Flowers with a single layer of petals can be easily pressed. Daisies, pansies, lavender sprigs, and violas also include pressing.
• Larger flowers: Big blooms or more delicate flowers should be preserved carefully in a sealed container. For example- Lilacs, pansies, dahlias, peonies, and daisies, etc.

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