How Do You Preserve Flowers?

One of the best ways to preserve flowers is to submerge the stems in a solution of glycerine. So the first thing that you need to do is buy a bottle of liquid glycerine. Cut mature flowers from your garden. You should harvest the flowers in the morning, especially after the dew has been dried off from the petals. Remove any dirt or dust from the surface and also get rid off shapeless stems, petals or leaves.

Crush the stems a couple of inches up from the cut end by using clippers. Heat the liquid glycerine to about 135 degrees F, in a double boiler or a microwave oven. Put the cut stems into the glycerine filled container. The stems should remain in the solution for 3 weeks or so. Now immerse flowers in a heat-proof container of warm glycerine. Only when the petals are elastic enough and there is no mark of fragility, you can remove them from the preserver.

By keeping the stem of the flower inside the water.