Even if carefully dried, flowers still aren?t eternal. Dried flowers are less subjected to damage than the living ones, but they are also vulnerable and can?t be preserved in ideal condition if you don?t take some pains looking after them.
To begin with, their colours tend to fade as time passes. Dried flowers are getting more and more pale, and you may need to put them to special attendance. Using aerosol paints and dyes, you may slightly tint the petals and stems of the dried flowers so that they retain their fresh looks longer.
The second threat comes from garden pests. Insects like beetles, silverfish, roaches and many more can easily cause great damage to your bunch, especially if you don?t take good care of the container where you keep the dried flowers. The container must be tightly closed so that insects don?t get there. Upon finding dried flowers, pests start gnawing the soft tissue in the centre of the plant and the dried flower gradually falls apart.
A way to prevent this is by checking occasionally the inner side of the box or container. If you find any insects, you had better take strict measures. Hordes of pests can be repulsed by sprinkling several naphthalene flakes in the inside of the box. Another way to get rid of insects is to spray stronger kinds of insecticides in the container. Anyway, precaution is best. When an area is infected, chemicals can do little about it. So, you?d better make sure that your container is tightly closed before you put the dried flowers in it. You need to regularly check the condition of your dried flowers to make sure no insects have broken through the siege.
Last thing you need to have in mind about dried flowers is that even with loving cares, they cannot last more than several years at best. But if you follow the tips, you may preserve the beautiful look of your dried flowers for a very long time.
