I got my book!

Finally after about a month, today I got my Anthotype's book in the mail! and its awesome! it has methods and a whole list of plants that have been tried out and how well they worked. some of the most interesting things I read in this book:

Anthotypes by Malin Fabbri

Anthotype means flower print.  Anthos is Greek for flower and type is latin loosely meaning image or form and Typos i Greek meaning impression or mark

Apparently in 1816 Henri August Vogel first discovered that plant juices were light sensitive and Sir John Herschel was the first to extensively research it in 1842

Sir John Herschel discovered or helped discover; Anthotypes, Canotypes, ambrotype and the tintype processes. he was the first person to managed to fix photographs and apparently coined the terms photography, positive, negative and snap shot.

A lot of Sir John Herschel's descriptions of  how anthotypes work are really confusing but this one makes sense - Henry H Snelling in history and practice of the art of photography says "Sir John Herschel attributes these changes (the changes/fading of colour on the anthotypes) to the escape of carbonic acid in some cases; to a chemical alteration depending on the absorption of oxygen, in others; and again in the others especially where the expressed juice coagulates on standing, to a loss of the molecules."

Experiments with using Alcohol and water as a diluter in the emulsion show that when Alcohol is used, the print is much stronger in it's colour. So I'll use alcohol in my emulsions for sure now!

Dipping the paper instead of brushing the emulsion on gives a stronger even print.

make sure you use a positive OHP, thats high contrast.

if you can see through the black parts on your photocopied OHP then use two and layer them up. - this is something I didn't think about!

Plants/fruit that have tested to produce good results:
Poppy flowers
Blueberries
rasberries
pansies
peonies
Beetroot
turmeric
Achiote seeds
Andes berry
Anemone petals
Bergamot, wild/ bee balm red petals
black berry
Black currant
Sliver beet
Crepe myrtle petals
Red Daisy petals
Dandelion whole head
Geranium
honey suckle tatarian petals
dired skins of yellow onion
Pokeberries
potato flower petals
red currant
Spirulina powder
sweet pea petals
tulip

found to be fast
marigold petals
corchorus japonica
dark red dahlia

List of Things to get
more plants.
supermarket - get beetroot etc
Photo frames - could I use cheap photo frames instead of 'glass clip frames' and 'contact print frames' as suggested in the book? yes I think so!

Right lets see what I can find!

...I went to a florist and they said that pretty much all of the flowers where summer ones. I don't want to have too many, so I'll got to common sense organics I think.