Pressed Flower Blog

How to Press Flowers with a Microfleur® Microwave Flower Press

Learn how to press flowers with a Microfleur® microwave flower press. Follow this step-by-step guide for vibrant pressed flowers in minutes, plus tips for choosing flowers, avoiding mistakes, and preserving your results.

The Complete Beginner's Guide to Microfleur®

New to flower pressing? Learn everything you need to know about the Microfleur® Microwave Flower Press, including how it works, how it compares to other methods, the best flowers to press, timing, storage, troubleshooting, and creative project ideas.

Finding Joy in Flower Pressing: Simple Tips for Beginners

Discover the simple joy of flower pressing. Learn easy methods, the best flowers to press, and creative ways to preserve your favorite blooms.

How to Use a Microfleur Flower Press: Your Questions Answered

Learn how to use and care for your Microfleur microwave flower press, choose pressing times, preserve flower color, prevent scorching, and store pressed flowers.

Picking Daisies

Want to press daisies in your Microfleur? Here's my secret for getting the best results!

Ethical Picking

Flower pressing isn't all fun and games, there are some rules you should know! Learn the key to respecting the art of picking and pressing flowers.

Pick Blooms Early

Pressing flowers is a delicate art, and the age of a flower plays a very important role in how well it will press. Learn when a flower is at its prime!

Avoid Bugs

Warning: this can ruin your flower pressing! Learn about the creatures that want to sabotage your projects.

Pick the Best Flowers

The Microfleur exists to preserve and enhance the natural beauty of flowers and other plant specimens, but the beauty isn't the only thing that gets enhanced!

Learn how to select the perfect flowers for pressing and achieve stunning results.

Time of Day Matters

Just like there a morning people and night people, flowers have their preferred time of day as well! Learn when to put "pick flowers" on your daily to-do list!

Fresh is Best

Want a perfectly preserved pressed flower? Learn how to get the best results with your Microfleur!

Color Retention

Using the Microfleur will help to retain the colour in your flowers. We find that some colors change in the press, some reds and blues go a mauve shade, gum leaves take on an autumn color. The stronger colors, such as the yellow in the jonquil, a red rose, tend to keep their color longer. The new, young fronds of the maidenhair will stay a vibrant green, while the older fronds may discolor in the press. As mentioned earlier, white or paler colored flowers need to be very newly opened as they tend to discolor during pressing.

Choosing and Preparing Flowers for Pressing

How to choose and prepare flowers before pressing.

When it comes to pressing flowers, the possibilities are endless. Nature affords us so much variety and beauty. Seeing all those flowers makes you want to bring home every one. However, there are some guidelines for choosing and preparing flowers for pressing so that you can have the best results and the most beautiful pressed flowers for you art, crafts, and projects.

Flower Pressing Methods

A summary of various pressing methods.

Pressing flowers is an age-old form for drying and flattening flowers and foliage to preserve them. Once pressed, or dried, the flowers can be stored for later use or used right away in art, crafts, or whatever your imagination can produce. It is also a way of preserving edible flowers, herbs, and other plants without using chemicals.

There are different ways to press flowers. Some flowers may lend themselves better to one way than other, but it more depends on personal preference. The following are various methods for pressing flowers.

Basic Equipment for Pressed Flower Projects

Recommended supplies for doing pressed flower projects.

Doing something is always easier with the proper tools, so here is a list of some basic equipment that may make various pressed flower crafts easier to do. Although not all these items may be needed, it would be ideal to have following items on hand as they will at least be useful for completion of various projects. This is not a complete list, but our recommendations are based on the usefulness.

How to Press and Preserve Fall Leaves

September is here and in the north, the leaves have already started to change. This brings a beautiful array of colour that blankets the the trees. The Microfleur Max is the perfect tool for preserving all this color which can then be used in crafts, art, DIY projects, etc.