Learn How to Preserve the Beauty of Fall Foliage
Fall is one of the most colorful times of the year thanks to the foliage leaves. It’s never enough to just live through Fall. Many people wish they had a way of keeping the memories. But they never realize that the chance is always there with them every year-Fall foliage leaves.
There are three main reasons why you really should preserve foliage leaves:
Collecting Leaves
Before you can preserve the, however, you need to collect them. When collecting the leaves, you need to keep a few things in mind:
Steps to Preserving Leaves
After collecting the leaves it’s time to preserve them. There are four methods of doing so:
i. Clean off the leaves and lay them on a piece of waxed paper which is on top of some thick cloth or towel.
ii. On the leaves, lay one more waxed piece of paper.
iii. Then on top of all that lay another cloth similar to the previous to make a sandwich of sorts.
iv. Carefully iron the top towel with your iron set on medium to melt the wax around the leaves. However, do not scorch the wax.
v. After the wax has melted, give it time to cool the cut the leaves out from the wax but leave the border of wax around the leaves to reduce chances of creating a hole where dust and moisture could get to the leaf and damage it.
How Classic Can Help You With Your Landscaping
If you want to have beautiful leaves every fall that you can preserve then you will want to contact Classic Landscapes. For more than 25 years, we have been designing people’s landscapes and the results have been exquisite, based on customer feedback. Talk to us today to get started on the design of your landscape, so you can collect beautiful leaves every Fall.
