Dyed flowers impress with their unusual look, which fits wonderfully into the modern living room ambience. White flowers such as gypsophila are very suitable for this as the color appears more intense.
How to dye baby's breath?
To color gypsophila, water-soluble food coloring or ink is added to water and the diagonally cut stem is placed in it. After about 48 hours, the flowers will absorb the color and show the desired shade.
How is baby's breath colored with food coloring?
Water-soluble food coloringisabsorbed by the white gypsophilaandcolorswithin 48 hoursthe flowers. It is important with this method that the flowers have a stem that is at least 25 centimeters long.
Procedure:
- Put the paint in a glass of water.
- Cut the stem of the gypsophila diagonally with a sharp knife.
- Place the panicle gypsum herb in the liquid.
- After about 48 hours, take out the flowers and cut off the stem end.
Why is gypsophila so easy to color?
Since the white flowers of gypsophila do not distort the desiredcolor tone, it is easy to dye and you can even achieve delicate, pastel nuances.
You can do this like this:
- The flowers absorb water in the vase through the stems and the bright flower heads change color due to the dye dissolved in them.
- The panicle gypsum herb is dipped or sprayed in paint.
How does baby's breath get a pastel shade?
If you only want to give the gypsophila flowers a delicate tone, you can achieve thisby using dissolved watercolor,in which you place the stems. If the color is still too light for you after 24 hours, you can add more pigments until the desired result is achieved.
How to color gypsophila with ink?
Depending on the variant, you can place the gypsophila directlyinto the liquid or mix the ink with a little water. A very intense color result can be achieved using ink.
Suitable are:
- Ink cartridges for the fountain pen
- Writing ink in a jar
- Ink used to fill printer cartridges.
Can you color baby's breath with spray or flower paint?
You canalso use flower or spray paint,however these methods arenot quite as suitable for gypsophila.
- Since the perennial has rather small flowers, the stems and leaves will inevitably be wetted by the spray paint.
- The flowers are dipped into flower dye and left in the dye for a few seconds. Since the panicle gypsum herb is very delicate, this would be quite laborious and often does not lead to the desired result.
Tip
Coloring flowers, an exciting experiment
Coloring baby's breath with food coloring or ink is an exciting experiment for children. You learn that even very delicate plants transport water to the flowers in their capillary system and can only survive this way.
