Back in the '70s I encased some plants in a clear resin. I don't remember how it all went down, but the big thing was the plants had to be dried first. The desiccant powder to dry them was difficult. The plant tissue had to be entirely covered in it and left for some time. Then the plant tissue was extremely fragile after it was dried and removing the powder often resulted in all the effort being ruined. The other difficult part was encasing it all delicate structure in the resin without having trapped bubbles. My end products were pretty small and I gave them away as paper weights. Some I was hoping to preserve in the resin proved to delicate for me to remove the desiccant powder, so I didn't consider the whole thing very successful. The only one I kept was a small marigold bloom. It may still be in a drawer somewhere if I haven't tossed it. It was a lot of work for imperfect results most of the time.
