How to Preserve Autumn Leaves with Vegetable Glycerine: A Step-by-Step Guide

I love bringing the outdoors inside to decorate my home. Autumn is the perfect time of year to preserve colorful leaves for decoration. Preserved leaves are a beautiful way to decorate for fall.

I used this vegetable glycerine

I hope you find this video helpful. Thanks for watching.

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[Bpt]

​ @Garden Moxie I want to thank you for the tip about the dishwasher rinse solution. it really does help the leaves to take up the mixture all the way through.
I too can use the glycerin mix more than one time - usually twice, and sometimes three times. Except when I'm doing Oak leaves. They tend to turn the mixture brown, which then darkens any other leaves I put in it.
Also, kudos for making such a nice video! Your voice is clear and calming, and this video is the best one I've seen on You Tube.

[Bpt]

I agree about maple leaves, Also, I tried Japanese maples- both the large kind and the frondy ones. I was so perplexed! The little frondy ones lost all their color, although the larger ones retained the red although they darkened considerably. I preserved some leaves (not maples) a long time ago with 50% glycerin/50% water, , put them in a box and discovered them when I was moving ten Years later! They were very dark brown, but still flexible. They did tear easily after I put them in an arrangement in front of a sunny window for a couple of weeks, & I think the sunlight was what degraded them.
Still, Ten Years!

[lyla.aisle.of.blooms]

Gorgeous! I hate the look of faux leaves, what a great idea to preserve real ones. Thank you for sharing!

[jeaniemalone]

Beautiful! Found your channel looking for ways to preserve fall foliage for a baby shower a few weeks away. I subscribed and hope to learn gardening tips from you as well.

[deniseleavens]

Very, very helpful! Thank you so much!

[ybisnina]

Beautifully explained. Thank you very much.

[akrossmann]

Beech tree leaves work perfectly with the glycerin method!

[nonitacabaseestipona]

Thank you so much for shari g this. I will follow your procedure. My grade 9 grandson will be having a project, mosaic?, using dried of different kinds of dried leaves by October, next month. Nice video. You're so relax, and honest in your answers. Much appreciated😊💖

[yubarth]

Thank you very much for your video, it's very instructive, very detailled and helpful. I have one question, have you try to do this process on entire plants ??

[mw]

Thank you so much for the video! Just a few questions though. Any reason you switched to 1:1 ratio instead of 1:2? And do you recommend 7 days or 3-4?

[bill]

About 5 minutes in you added an update saying you now use one cup of glycerin and one cup of water. Why is this? Do you find the stronger concentration helps preserve the item better?

Also will any soap work? Dawn for example?

[curatethedetails]

Great video! How long did the cedar branch and ferns retain their color?

[TheLimeTree]

Thank you for the video, after preserving the green leaves, could then immerse them into the oil bottle for decoration? Will they stay in the oil good?

[susie]

Hello! Great video, I'm especially interested to find out if the cedar/arbor vitae turned out? If so, how long did it take those? Thank you!!

[gabrielagabriela]

This method can be used for example, for flowers? Roses, marigold or chrysanthemum?

[Reincarnation]

Won't it be better to use dish pan or or a rectangular foil pan instead of a round bowl so you can dunk longer stems?

[TimetravelerMN]

Great video I was going to get a few ounces, seeing your video; I’m getting a gallon $26 organic on amazon. ❤🍁🍎

[mendyhand]

Thx so much! Ferns are so delicate. Have you tried ironing with wax paper on any leaves? Maples we’re gorgeous! Only a few day left her in Georgia! - Messy Mendy 🍂🍁🌿

[halimimathis]

Hey there nice work ! I have a CBD farm in Spain and I’m wondering if I can try this with a whole cannabis plant of 1m20 ? Maybe if I put the whole plante in a bath of glycerin and maybe alcool to stabilize it ? And maybe add a green colorant to preserve the green color ? Do you think this would work ?
Thx for the answer and for the video ☺️

[armidaortega]

And after the preserve method the leaves are flexible?