I would say that most of the time when I’m working with dried herbs, it usually involves dumping them in water and stirring a lot. While I’m aware of the art of the pressed flower, I’ve always been a bit blank as to its practical applications. Sure, people put them in bookmarks and use them in bookmarks, but now that flowers aren’t a secret code between you and your beau, what applications do they have?
Apparently, as I learned from a visit to the Bell Museum of natural history, they have use in taxidermy and dioramas. While most musuems have been able to move on to other methods of learning, the Bell’s standby at the moment is its dioramas – and the creation of them is a real art form.
