She finishes the bookmark with a ribbon threaded through a hole at the top of paper. Kirkland is full of creative ideas that she plans to share with others at this year's Gardenfest, co-sponsored by the Texas Master Gardeners and Amarillo Botanical Gardens. Yellow pansies like these are pressed and arranged like a bouquet in frame. Yellow and purple colors hold well when dried and pressed. But her designs aren't all child's play.
People can be as creative as they want when it comes to using dried, pressed flowers in their homes.
Kirkland gave away framed photos to family members with flowers glued to the corners of the matting. Kirkland already was drying and pressing materials before she learned the art of arranging them from Jaynet Davis of Priceless Petals and Mary Lou Bell, who did a program on it at the first Gardenfest in 1998. I came home and made some presses.