Dusty Rhodes

You can find recipes online about using glycerine to preserve color in dried leaves and flowers. As a plant taxonomist, I use a homemade plant press all the time. Because I am pressing specimens for inclusion in a herbarium, it is important to preserve details of flower structure as well as leaves and stems. I have tried to make it as much a creative endeavor as a scientific one by focusing on making quality pressings that display all parts of the plant well for others to enjoy and be able to properly identify what they might find.

I find these posts incredibly useful except for one thing. It seems as though everyone here knows each other and where everyone lives, saying things like, “I’m a bit north of you” or “down here.” As a newbie here on the site, it would be great to have some idea of where “down here” is! We might be neighbors or half a continent away. Think of how much more helpful this thread could be . . .