Collection: Flower Pressing Kits

If you are not sure, Poppy. She is small enough to take on a walk, big enough for most garden flowers, and the least expensive way to find out whether you love pressing. Buy Lilabelle first only if you already know you want to press a bouquet or a lot of flowers at once. The compare page puts all four side by side.

Yes, in Lilabelle. Take the bouquet apart the day you get it and press the flowers as separate stems and petals rather than as one bunch. Roses and other thick flowers press best as single petals, which you arrange back into a flower once dry. A bouquet usually fills three to five layers of Lilabelle. Poppy and Flora will take a few stems from a bouquet but not the whole thing.

Ten minutes to load, then two to three weeks in the press. Thin petals can be ready in one to two weeks. Tighten the press a little more each day for the first week, and do not open it to check before day ten; every peek lets moisture back in.

They can if they hold water. Press thick flowers as separate petals, change the paper after the first day or two while it is damp, and keep the press somewhere warm and dry. Roses, ranunculus and thick daisies all press beautifully as petals. To be extra safe, store finished flowers in a sealed bag with one of the little silica gel sachets that come in shoe boxes.

Poppy takes the Travel refill, 5.9 x 10 in, ready to use. Flora takes the Square refill, 10.2 x 10.2 in, with the corners already clipped to clear the bolts. Lilabelle takes the XL refill, 14.7 x 11.2 in, which you trim down to her boards with scissors. The A4 pack trims to fit any press, including Tilly and Tansy.

Each press comes with paper and card for four or five layers, and each layer is two sheets, one under the flowers and one over. The bolts are long, so you can add layers of your own and go well past what is in the box. On Lilabelle the bolts take ten layers or more.

No. The manual is illustrated, the video tutorials show each step at the kitchen table, and the free ebook takes you from your first pansy to framed art. Most people press their first flowers within an hour of opening the box.

Each item ships separately, so a press and a paper refill ordered together may arrive on different days. Everything is dispatched from our warehouse in the US.