Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “For centuries, we have pressed flowers as a way to hold a moment, a loved one, a memory,” offers Linda Ruel Flynn, owner and ...

Nature-themed crafts never go out of style, and the classic technique of pressing flowers is something that anyone can have a go at. Flower pressing is a way of preserving flowers by flattening them ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Over the past few weeks, many of us have been on the hunt for things to keep our hands occupied, so as ...

Pressing flowers is a Victorian practice used both as an outdoorsy pastime and a method of recording natural history. It also might be the perfect craft for the current moment, combining time spent ...

My compulsion to garden vividly and expressively comes from Grandma Marion, who always made room for masses of marigolds and zinnias that echoed the colors of the Fiestaware on her pantry shelves. But ...

Or perhaps, there’s a wildflower that never fails to capture your attention when you’re strolling through the park, or in the garden? Enter the crafty practice of flower pressing – a simple method of ...

The participants at last weekend’s flower pressing workshop at Longue Vue House and Gardens probably didn’t know they were employing a Japanese art form that dates to the 1600s. Oshibana, practiced — ...

Learning how to press flowers is not as difficult as you might think. The technique makes an ephemeral beauty eternal by flattening the daisies, pansies, violets, and wildflowers that color your ...