I spent last Sunday preserving the petals from my Valentine’s Day bouquet! I was so pleased that they had lasted such a long time, but seeing them slowly wilt made me wish I could keep them forever, so naturally I looked into how I could make that happen, and I’m so happy with the outcome.

Thankfully, it’s quite an easy process, although very time consuming if you only use one dish at a time, as I did. I put them in the oven in three batches, each time at 120 degrees, until they looked and felt crispy. This took roughly 10-15 minutes. I then transferred them into lunchbox for safe keeping. I plan to buy a glass jar, and do this for each of my future bouquets as they begin to wilt, so I can hold onto them forever, and keep them on display – just in a different way.

I was amazed at the colour change and the smell was amazing. They shrunk a lot more than I thought they would but they’re still very lovely to look at. Once I’ve got a good amount of preserved petals I think I’ll look into, and begin to experiment with making tea with them!

I enjoyed the process so much that I even made a tiktok about it, which you can see here –

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeMebHeG/

Is this something you’d like to give a try? Or have you already mastered the process? If you’ve done it before, what did you do with them? I’d love to hear about it!