HELP! I need to press/preserve one single solitary flower - what to do????

[VeniVidiVickiQV]

I havent had a flower press since I was a girl, I dont have blotting paper. I want to press one WHITE tulip so want to keep the colour, and not have to spend any money on papers presses etc....

What can I do??????

Put it between two bits of kitchen roll and squish it in a book

will that stop it going brown though?

think tulips won't press well - too fleshy, iykwim...

sorry, that's not actually help as such is it? Just raining on your parade ...

What if i squish it and freeze it at the same time?

Its a white tulip from my neices wedding that i wanted to preserve and stick in a scrap album for her.

I may be wrong but I think you would have to use chemicals to preserve the white...? The browning is just a natural process and will occur whether you use a press or just a heavy book. I think you'd have to use some kind of industrial bleach type stuff to stop it.

I am no expert though, so possibly some clever flower preserver knows a method.

sorry, x posted. Maybe the freezing would help.

Perhaps you could freeze dry it without pressing? Just keep it in an open box in the freezer for approximately a hundred years until the moisture has all gone? I have half a dozen freeze-dried prawns at the bottom of my freezer as proof that the method does work on prawns at least

ROFL MissG

I have two....i'll try pressing one and freezing another and i'll let you know the results.

well if it doesn't work then I can let your niece have a dried prawn as a memory of her special day. They are pink and white - very bridal.

Awww shame. Her theme was ivory and gold....never mind, thanks for the offer

There's some sort of sand-type stuff (sorry, not a flower person but used to see my mum do it) that you can get, where you put the flower into a box and cover it with this stuff which dries it out and preserves it. Can remember white flowers going ivory, but not horrible brown.

two sheets of kitchen roll, in between heavy magazines or books. It should keep the colour, mine do. HTH.

I have been told that dipping in glycerine helps keep colour.

Just checked and oolitic sand was what I was talking about, if that helps

aww thank you. Have squished one in kitchen roll in between two place mats with 3 HUGE jars of strawberry jam sat on top.

I have placed the other in tin foil and put it in the freezer.

I have ordered my exploding card boxes and am ready to go