Can dusty miller be dried?
- Dusty miller. The gray foliage of dusty miller is widely used in arrangements, and most plants dried for their foliage can be treated the same way. Cut throughout the growing season, band the stems together and hang upside down to dry.
A good use for dusty miller is as filler with cut flowers. The bright silver foliage acts as a clean contrast to bright florals, and it's a nice change from your typical green fillers. It's not the longest lasting cut green, but it adds a wonderful elegance to any arrangement. Also try drying dusty miller.
Ageratum 'Red Top'
Also dries well. To dry, cut when bloom is still tight, and hang to dry indoors out of direct light. In the dried state, ageratum is useful in wreaths and arrangements.
Place the ferns between two sheets of wax paper. You can then use a book or a flower press to press the ferns together to dry them out. After a few weeks, remove your pressed ferns and enjoy your creation.
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Dusty miller preparations that are not certified and labeled “hepatotoxic PA-free” are considered UNSAFE. It's also UNSAFE to apply dusty miller to broken skin. The dangerous chemicals in dusty miller can be absorbed quickly through broken skin and can lead to dangerous body-wide toxicity.
Keep Dusty Miller in a shallow cup, or leave on packaging to avoid leaves from getting wet.
Hang them upside down in a dark, dry, well-ventilated area. Keeping the flowers out of direct sunlight will help them retain their color. The drying process will take about two to three weeks. Once dried, take down the flowers and spray with unscented hairspray for protection.
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How do you preserve a leaf with hairspray?
You can preserve maple leaves by fusing them between two sheets of wax paper with an iron, soak the maple leaves in a solution of liquid glycerin and water, or simply microwave the maple leaves and spray them with hairspray afterwards.
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Creating an invaluable collection. With appropriate care, pressed plants can last for hundreds of years. The Museum has volumes of herbarium sheets dating from as far back as the late 1600s and early 1700s.
The dusty miller plant is often grown as an annual and discarded after the first season, however, it is an herbaceous perennial and may return in USDA plant hardiness zones 8 to 10. Growing dusty miller can handle the heat, but is best planted where afternoon shade is available during the hottest months of summer.
Dusty miller tolerates light frost with ease, but can be damaged by hard freezes. Where winters are mild, dusty miller can be grown as a winter annual or short-lived perennial.
Dusty miller turns green when the plant grows in shady areas. A healthy Dusty miller plant looks silver in color. Dusty miller also turns green when the humidity is higher than optimum.
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| Common Name | Dusty miller, silver dust, silver ragwort |
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| Hardiness Zones | 8–11 (USDA) |
| Native Area | Mediterranean |
Dusty Miller
Ingesting this plant can cause vomiting and diarrhea. Furthermore, coming in contact with this plant can cause skin irritations for pets.
Last year I planted Dusty Millers with some red blooming begonias in a window box, and the results made for an attractive combination. I also set some Dusty Millers in a flower bed along with bright colored marigolds. They prefer rich humus and well-drained soil with a substantial amount of compost added.
