Professionally, we would leave them for a good month but you can probably get away with a couple of weeks before you take them all out. Then you’ve got the fun of recreating the flowers and designs.”

Once you’ve placed your flowers on the kitchen roll, put a few more layers of kitchen roll on top and close the book,” she added.

Pressed flowers prefer a dark environment where sunlight can’t fade their colours. I keep my flowers in the press for a s long as possible, ideally until I’m ready to use them. However, it’s not always possible when pressing many flowers for craft and business purposes. In this instance I like to put store mine in recycled plastic take away containers and put them in a dark cupboard. I layer up little sheets of paper with my pressed flowers to store them; this works particularly well for smaller flowers. 9. Understand The Lifespan Of A Pressed Flower Meter is one of the most considerable elements when it comes to rhythm of a verse, Daffodils is in a form of sixain (a stanza of six lines), each line following an iambic tetrameter. The word iamb means unstressed-stressed syllables and tetra means four. Out of four syllables in a line, when an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable, is called iambic tetrameter. Let’s see in the following example; you can either made stressed syllables in bold or can mark them ( x) – unstressed and (/) – stressed. Personification and Simile: I wander’d lonely as a cloud– The first line makes nice use of personification and simile. The poet assumes himself to be a cloud (simile) floating in the sky. When Wordsworth says in the second line ‘I’ (poet as a cloud) look down at the valleys and mountains and appreciate the daffodils; it’s the personification, where an inanimate object (cloud) possesses the quality of a human enabling it to see the daffodils.

The warm air of the dehydrator creates a wonderful fluffy effect for dried thistles and cornflowers. If you’re using your flowers in food preparation or decoration, this method is recommended (and of course, make sure your flowers are fit for consumption before trying this!) Drying Flowers in a Vase If you're trying to press a bulkier plant, add extra paper and card to ensure that every part of the plant and flower is being directly pressed, to avoid bits shrivelling up. The last or the fourth stanza is narration of what pleasure the author had gained after watching the daffodils dancing that day. Whenever the author, Wordsworth felt sad or alone, the picture of dancing daffodils came to his mind and it was like he regained life’s treasure. How valuable the solitude is! At the end, author’s heart was content in joining the daffodils’ dance. Rhyming Scheme Learning how to press flowers without creating flower origami takes a little trial and error, as the transformation is more dramatic than drying. If you’re planning on pressing a special occasion bouquet, have a few practice presses with garden flowers, or a less sentimental bouquet. For more delicate blooms such as orchids or lilies, pressing is the recommended method. Pressing Flowers With BooksThe poem paints images of lakes, fields, trees, stars in Ullswater. Wordsworth continuously praises the daffodils, comparing them to the Milky Way galaxy (in the second stanza), their dance (in the third stanza) and in the concluding stanza, dreams to join the daffodils in their dance. Use of colors i.e. white (cloud), green (hills), blue (lake), silver (stars) etc. enhance the picturesque. The poem starts in pessimism (author’s loneliness) and ends in optimism (pleasure of watching daffodils). Thus, Wordsworth’s imagination is a major factor of romanticism. Many guides will recommend only using heavy books, but we’ve found that you can use almost any book - just place heavier books on top! Just make sure the weight is evenly distributed across the area of the book being used to press.

The words used in the poem like crowd, fluttering, dancing, stretched, heads, company, etc. are giving the flowers, daffodils human qualities.If you want to ensure your newly dried flowers last even longer, spray them with a surface sealer and leave them to dry. If you want to press a succulent plant or something with a large stem, use kitchen roll to absorb the extra moisture that comes out on the first day, and throw it away. Ditto if you are trying to press multiple specimens at once. Place the kitchen roll so that it is an extra layer outside of the newspaper. You could also consider cutting the plant stem in half. They stretched in never-ending line– the flowers are spread everywhere in a line, significance of vastness is explained.

Get a large plastic container with a lid and fill the bottom of it with a quarter of an inch of silica gel. Using a flower press will allow you more control over the pressing process than a book. A flower press is recommended for lilies and daffodils, as their iconic shape is recognisable from certain angles more than others. With these larger flowers, it may be worth considering pressing the petals separately and then reconstructing the flower once pressed. If however you think your life is just too busy right now for flower pressing, herbarium-themed pressed flower prints would add instant sophistication to your walls. What Glue To Use With Kids Asides from the microwave itself, this method does also require additional equipment such as silica sand and a microwave safe container you won't be using for food again. Silica Sand for Drying Flowers

The waves beside them danced– Along with flowers, waves too are gifted with the human quality to dance. Newspaper works well as the immediate covering for your plant specimen because it is fairly absorbent and has anti-fungal properties. Put them somewhere lovely and warm. Somewhere like an airing cupboard or nice, sunny conservatory is ideal. Continuous as the stars that shine, And twinkle on the milky way– use of simile, daffodils looked like twinkling stars on the milky way, thus connecting nature with the universe. Catherine’s top tip:"Some people make a really massive mistake of thinking they have to push loads of weight down on the flowers to make it press well, but that’s not the case – in fact, you can really damage the flowers doing that. Just put enough gentle pressure to flatten the petals without squashing them. Placing a pile of books on top is lovely but you don’t need to sit on the pile of books." Designing the flowers