I am doing a dummy cake for advertisement at a local hydrangea festival tomorrow. Ther ehave been some massive interferances at home and the gp hydrangeas just aren't done. I have some done, but not enough for the design I'm working for.
How bad would it be to use fresh hydrangeas? The cake is a dummy cake, so no one will be eating it.
Rachel
It wouldn't be bad but I have been told (by my florist when I was getting married and desparately wanted hydrangeas) that they are very fragile and don't hold up well but on the flip side I later went to a wedding that had tons of hydrangeas and they were beautiful!
Good if you can keep them in a little florists vial with water, hidden in the dummy. assuming that can be done.
So preservation IS the as big a problem as I thought it would be.
Darnit.
Well, I'm going to finish dusting the 55 gp flowers I have done and see how they look
Rachel
Do you have a food dehydrator? I saw a demo last month she did hydrageas and dried them in a fd. It took only 15 min I believe and they were ready to decorate. She did with and with out wires. Worked great. I am also going to do hydrangeas for a wedding next month. Plus other flowers. So I was glad to know that little tid bit. If not how about silk ones. Don't need to worry about them dieing.
I don't have a dehydrator.
The thing is, I have 55 little blossoms done and I just finished dusting the first set of about 25. Yeah... I'd need like 6 more of the sets to come close to covering the top of a 8 inch square.
Rachel
What about some pretty silks, maybe from Micheals as a back up if the real ones give you a fit and start drooping. You might try them. I went to a wedding and they had tons of real ones and they held up but I don't know if they did something special to them.
We don't have a Michaels or any craft stores in town.
I finished the ones that I have and I'm going to finish the rest of the cake and than when I'm done with all the other details, I'm going see how the GP ones I have done look.
In the end, it'll look great - I hope.
Rachel
I always cut our hydrangas for use in the house and they last SO well hat I'm really suprised to hear that some people say they don't. In fact I leave them without water deliberately to dry them and they hold their shape and colour for months before going brown.
I have had the same experience as Emma- I will cut them and leave them in a vase to dry.
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