How to Dry Carnations
Carnations are attractive, frilly flowers that come in a extensive assortment of colors and sizes. They are reasonably cheap and uneasy to locate in a flower shops and grocery store flower departments, or you can rise them at home. Drying carnations conserves them so that you can add them in arrangements or ornaments and utilize them as decorations all year.
Things You will Need:
- Silica gel
- Microwave oven
Prepare Carnations for Drying
- Select the lustrous colors of carnations, since the blooms will free some of their color during drying.
- Collect carnations that are near to full bloom, or not rather fully open, for drying. Prevent using carnations that are already drooping.
- Collect more carnations than you demand for your task in case some of them get modified during drying.
- Trim back the stems small enough to be able to fit in a container.
- Trim away any leaves or side stems.
Dry the Carnations
- Spread over the bottom of a microwave-safe glassware dish with 1 to 2 inches silica gel.
- Place about four carnations in the dish, blossom side up, without allowing the flowers to attack one another.
- Cover the carnations with silica gel, moving carelessly to prevent devastating the blossoms. Make certain to let the silica gel spill between the petals to fully cover the carnations.
- Put the dish with the silica gel and carnations in the microwave. Put a cup of water (in a microwave safe container) in the rear corner of the microwave.
- Turn on the microwave, on the carnations for about 4 minutes. (The period may change relying on the kind of microwave and the surface and shape of the carnations.)
- Take the dish of carnations out of the microwave utilizing non-heated gloves. Allow the container to cool fully.
- Remove the dried carnations from the silica gel, softly sweeping them off. Dried carnations are delicate, so manage them with love.