Picking Dried Flowers on the Flower Farm

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2 жыл бұрын

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@jennifertucker107 2 жыл бұрын

There is a youtuber- Northlawn Flower Farm- that has a video of making a Christmas tree decorated completely with dried flowers. It's is a beautiful effect.

@kiranbirkaur2770 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I watch her She is genius.

@tulle7358 2 жыл бұрын

You should look in to , you can’t eat the grass. She dry everything. I mean EVERYTHING! And in bouquet everything looks stunning and colourful… a dry zinnia can be a questionable thing 😉 but in arrangement, it’s beautiful… and it’s like that with many flowers and plants. But go watch them 👍🏽😊

@hansejr Жыл бұрын

I love when you stop and share with us what is happening in the background, especially the alpacas since they seem so curious. I also enjoy seeing your dogs accompanying you. I see many flower farmers asking how do you keep your dogs out of the fields, you seem to embrace that.That’s nice.

@hansejr Жыл бұрын

You should do a workshop on dried flower arrangements. Popular now in the U.S.A. Is line drawings of women’s head and class members affix dried flowers to the head, very artistic.

@ECole-le7we 11 ай бұрын

Zinnias are lovely as pressed flowers, which can be used in jewelry and other crafts.

@ECole-le7we 11 ай бұрын

I put off watching this video. But I've watched it now and found it very fascinating!

@Happy-tc2jt 6 ай бұрын

Lovely flowers,have you tried strawflowers,you would like them,they zre amazing!!!

@inbloom2006 2 жыл бұрын

The farm looks so lovely! I had no idea dried flower wholesalers were a thing, that's such a brilliant idea. And wow! I would never have thought to dry an artichoke, that looks so cool! I use silica gel sand for drying flowers like zinnias and dahlias - it would take a ton to do the amount of flowers you do, but if you want to have a few for accent pieces it could come in handy. They keep their shape and color much better than they do when hanging, they still darken a bit but not as much. I have also just started experimenting with freeze drying flowers, they look fantastic but I have to figure out a way to seal them properly because they reabsorb moisture really easily.

@melodywhealdon2072 2 жыл бұрын

I use a dehumidifier in my drying area to speed up drying. You could also have one in the shipping container during the fall and winter to keep everything from getting moldy..:)

@hansejr Жыл бұрын

You can dry the dahlias, zinnias in a stand up manner…use your green sifter to drop the stems into so the disc head is supported and let them dry upright.

@daiseegray9110 2 жыл бұрын

You can’t eat the grass you tube channel made a Christmas tree and ornaments out of dried flowers. The ornaments were cute! 🌼🐝

@TheFinFarm 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been drying statice, yarrow, and strawflower. Also plan to dry wheat when it’s ready! It’s a lovely dried texture.

@karenslater343 2 жыл бұрын

On KZfaq..You can’t eat the grass Serina used some sort of powder forgot what but she kept the colour on some of the flowers. Check them out.

@petpawteek8776 2 жыл бұрын

I think she used silica, and it worked really great!

@wendycullingworth3879 2 жыл бұрын

It's no good Sarah, you are going to have to kick Rob out of a shed so you can expand......🤣

@whitneybrown4670 Жыл бұрын

I tried drying zinnias out of curiosity throughout this year and each time I am not happy w the result to save for dried flowers. So I'm using them for future seed and for petal ornaments and book markers

@jemsfloralstudiotheacademy7091 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love your videos! They are so inspirational. I would love to grow my own flowers for my tutorials! X

@karenh.7086 2 жыл бұрын

And you look beautiful!

@kmagslove3983 2 жыл бұрын

My unpopular opinion is dried flowers are awful. I just cant get into them. They remind me of 1978. But hey!!! If I can offload extra stems to a wholesaler that actually likes that stuff, well SWEET!!! Id be into that!!! Your farm is beautiful as always!!! Thanks for all the info you provide!

@bloomandgray 2 жыл бұрын

Haha I’m also not that keen on having them in my house, I Iike dried bunny tails and that’s about it 😂.

@Nat-mk7gb 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely informative video :) thank you! Maybe when you start to grow nigela we can grow it alongside you :) I really struggle growing a healthy plant of nigella for some reason. Same goes for rudbeckia and status. Will joint for grow with me type of video if you will make it :) oh and grasses of course! I love the eyelash grass that you are growing and drying. Really lovely

@DianeMorissette Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing all this information! I’m curious why some things are in tunnels? Thanks

@patblaney3895 Жыл бұрын

👍

@cheriedodd9358 2 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this video. Actually I say that about all your videos 😁. I live in New Zealand, so my garden is bare at the moment. Spring almost here. I've had great success drying pompom dahlias. The red and deep purple come up very strong colours. They do shrink, so go for bigger size rather than smaller. I'm still fighting against growing straw flowers as they remind me too much of the 70s, where I hated them in my grandparents house 😄

@bloomandgray 2 жыл бұрын

Must be nice to see videos of flowers during your winter season! I like seeing posts from growers ‘down under’ in winter. I love the helichrysum, especially to use fresh.

@jasonstashko6021 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for showing us the artichoke. We are now using artichokes in our bouquets and letting people know that the idea comes from you! Could you tell us at what stage you picked your atichoke for it to dry like this? Was it a closed bud that eventually opened or an already opened flower that dried out so beautifully? Thanks for all your great tips and videos!

@bloomandgray 2 жыл бұрын

I believe it was a closed bud that opened. I remember being surprised that it carried on opening and flowering after I picked it and hung it up!

@Nat-mk7gb 2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow to Suworowii statice ❤️❤️❤️I though this was salocia! What a gorgeous flower 🌸 how do you grow this one?

@anitahaywood9827 2 жыл бұрын

HI Sarah, I've picked some Amaranth from the allotment, and put it in an arrangement, its only for home use, put fresh water in it and they were sticking up, when I picked it it was drooping lovely, was it something I did? it looked like it had been wired!

@bobd9640 2 жыл бұрын

On the Victorian Flower Garden, episode 6, (on KZfaq), shows how the used to drench dry flowers in an alum solution to leave crystals on dry flowers. Not sure what the result looks like, never tried it.

@felicityduncan7956 2 жыл бұрын

I have pulled the petals off zinnias and just dried them on a flat tray . They keep their colour and look gorgeous. Could be confetti or used in soaps etc ?

@lonechristiansen7371 2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou for this lovely video, may I ask where you buy thee seeds for that great eyelash grass, I am in denmark and I can´t find the seeds. for drying dahlia and zinnia you get the best result drying them i sillica sand

@melindaotto716 2 жыл бұрын

You can’t eat the grass is a you tuber in Canada that dries all her bouquets that don’t sell at the farmers markets and they always carry some back to the farmers market and some always sell.check out her chanel

@mirijeasani1550 11 ай бұрын

👍👏🌹

@elizabethsmyth7769 2 жыл бұрын

Mornin....which variety of nigella have you hung there...smashin!!!

@bloomandgray 2 жыл бұрын

I grew three or four varieties this year, Persian jewels, miss Jekyll rose, and Albion green pod 😊

@Nat-mk7gb 2 жыл бұрын

What is the pink variety of Salocia that you grow? Thank you :)

@emilysharpe322 Жыл бұрын

Hi Sarah, what is the yellow black and red turbine that we see in the background of your videos?

@Booo858 Жыл бұрын

How do you water all your flowers?

@luizap.5344 Жыл бұрын

You do all the work in the farm?????????

@AndreaAubertin 2 жыл бұрын

Would Coneflower seed heads dry well?

@bloomandgray 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I think it does!

@angiezavacky4347 2 жыл бұрын

What! No strawflower ??!

@bloomandgray 2 жыл бұрын

I may harvest some of that late down the line but I like to use it fresh, I also find that the heads go really floppy when dried and they’re not really useable!