How to make herbarium

Autumn is a magnificent golden time, which makes it possible to engage in collecting a variety of material for herbarium. Autumn paints will play differently on album sheets. In the summer and spring, you can also collect interesting plants. In herbarium, not everything is so simple, as it will seem at first glance for an inexperienced novice. Flowers need to be dried correctly, it turns out something flat and not very beautiful, and somehow saved leaves of trees will lose their color gamut.

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How to make herbarium - collecting material

• It takes a small garden blade or scissors for a neat extraction, separation from a total mass.
• It is important to collect plants in dry weather. Increased humidity will negatively affect the color stability, forms. Wet samples softened and turning.
• The classic herbarium collection script requires the preservation of the plant from the roots to the petals. For example, a plant in full growth is not included in the sheet, the stem broke and fully placed in the selected area.
• Collect specimens for albums, paintings, pouring epoxy resin, as a rule, on the street. But if allowed, enjoy the possibility of both the botanical gardens, where excellent patterns of natural beauty are grown.
• Fold plant models into a large folder with solid walls, initially laid by newspapers that do not contain lubricating paint on their pages. Leaves, flowers are laid out in the pose, which they will look after drying.

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How to make herbarium - dried process

• At home, you will need a press presses with herbarium. For example, fat books, boards, chipboard sheets, fiberboard, any other heavy items.
• Under the press placed up to 50 pieces without the main folder for carrying. Next to the collectible sample necessarily glue the label, the announcement of the name. Printed only words or write from the hands of a broken handwriting.
• Ideally, every 2 days should be changed to dry newspaper lining. As necessary, the dried natural material brittle and fragile flowers, stems, leaves keep their shape, warm to the touch.
• Mount classic herbarium on a white sheet of dense desired format. Sheet accommodate any suitable number of plants. Failed herbarium not put in a folder, replace it reassembled, so as not to spoil the overall picture.
• Fasten thread plants in the sample tone. Sutured over the entire area, maintaining an interval between the stitches. On the reverse side should not be huge stitches, thread firmly knotted. Also, the method of attachment - thin strips of tracing paper, PVA glue. Adhesive tape or plaster are not suitable, spoils the appearance.
• Typically drying plant from 2 to 4 weeks. The process depends on watery and humidity.
• Stored compositions with herbarium folder in a ventilated area behind the glass, away from the dust.
• For a herbarium is not gonna hurt the plant if it is not the main idea.
• It is convenient to dry the leaves through a gauze, cloth, holding a hot iron on top. So often make students when time to cook a little.
• The longer the distance from the temporary disruption of the stem before compression, the dimmer will color.

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How to make a herbarium - Drying Flowers

• Continued colors of life after death - is a separate issue. Because the buds are beautiful, because they are bulky. Need for: shallow salt pans, books, white papers, cans, scissors, glue. Plucked flowers processed immediately, thereby maintaining color, liveliness, form. Miniature head removed under the press, and lush - in a container of salt or semolina. At the bottom of the glass jar poured edible salt or cereals, flower is placed, taking care to put the pellet between the petals. Leave them for 1 month. Extracting vytrusit, blow the use for its intended purpose.
• Method with river sand. Sand sieved, washed free of impurities. Then raskalivayut in the oven on a baking sheet and covered with buds.
• Huge pions cut into 2-4 pieces, and after the drying process, glue them.

Let it be known to the reader that even the aristocrats were engaged in a herbarium. Among nature lovers fairly widespread hobby. Connecting the imagination can make delicious long-lasting pictures. A flawless zasushka gives volume, a piece of life. Decorated in a box plants are suitable as a gift for Mother's Day, 8 March, or to decorate your home interior.