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How to spice bouquets of dry flowers In addition to our own dry bouquets, perfectly prove themselves a number of decorative twigs with actually leaves, fruits or interesting patterns. This type of vegetable preferably maintains an aqueous answer of glycerol. In hot water, dissolve the glycerol in the ratio 1: 1 or 2: 1, the fluid then cool it for the cold insert, and the depth of branches approx. 5-7 cm. After approx. 3-6 weeks (according to species), remove the remaining liquid, and the plants put to dry on paper or newspaper. Such a plant will become soft, waxy appearance, it is quite flexible and does not break. It is also much better to clean from dust, using a damp towel. This method has some sort of drawback, however, glycerin causes the decomposition of chlorophyll, so leaves exposed to sunlight will change color to dirty yellowish. In order to retain a nice color to the solution we add a little dye to dye plants (sold at good garden centers) or ink, eg. In green. Glycerine best to maintain a stem with actually leaves or fruits and grasses: ivy, Barberry, cyprus, boxwood, maple, privet, sea buckthorn, old man. To best use the fresh plant or basic aniline inorganic dyes, which are well ingested. Staining lasts approx. 15 minutes. A wonderful addition to be able to any composition with dry flowers, are twigs with fresh fruit like rowan, Ghostlight or wild rose (naturally harvested, dried or preserved glycerine). A similar role is usually played by seed minds tomatillo, poppies and cumin, as well as colorful twig dogwoods (yellowish and red) or interesting shoots of broom. Also, do not forget the cones, which are extremely softly, and sometimes they can be used together with an olive (larch).