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That’s awesome! I grew straw flowers & need to make some arrangements! I’ll go pick some black eyed Susan’s & goldenrod & asters & anything else I can find 😂 thanks for the video
Love Nathan's facial impressions… he's so fun to watch
I'd luv to have some canes or starts or whatever of those twice a year blackberries especially if they could be grown in a pot.
I think the dinner plate dahlia didn’t do well just because it was smooshed going into the drier. Maybe try with only every other tray in so it has more room and doesn't get smooshed. They are just gorgeous tho❣️
Maybe try putting the Dahlias face down on the trays and see if that helps keep them from folding up!
I wonder if you tried doing the dinner plates face down the petals wouldn’t curl. It kind of looked like it was a tight fit for them. Love that you explore the unknown. Great job guys.
Beautiful beautiful flowers and loved the cones and dark, Daniel from northlands flower farm is simply air drying her dahlias for tree please check it out ,and omg ur roses love 💕 love ❤️ ur earrings too💃💃🤗
Try freeze drying for less time love ur dahlia too
That’s so cool. When you were saying to save some for the girls, the first thing I thought of was a pretty little farmhouse style frame with a flower head in it for their bedrooms. I may make one for my kitchen or something ❤
Oh yes…I worked in a florist thirty years ago and we freeze dried al types of flowers. We sed them in all sorts of dried arrangements…they were stunning.
Nathan is showing some of that awesome personality!
You could use the flowers in shadow box style picture frames as gifts or wall art or even to sell in your shop. The shadow box frames are pretty deep.
I was also thinking that freeze dried petals would be amazing for soaps and teas. I love this video!
Those roses 😍
I'd like to see a dwarf teddy bear sunflower. Maybe calendula?
We used to use old school Aqua Net hair spray for flowers like your goldenrod that have multiple tiny flower parts. It kept the tiny parts from coming loose over time.
There is a whole freeze drying floral association! That group supports freeze drying wedding flowers, etc. It’s a huge thing!
What varieties of berries do y’all recommend? We are getting into berries and fruit trees.
Omg this is amazing! What a great idea. I love the idea of making wreaths and ornaments with them. Maybe take some of the tangerine sky arbor roses and make a wreath or ornament for Jess. If I remember right they were a gift from miah and the boys
I would skip a tray between the dinner plates. Pretty sure there just wasn’t enough room. They would be beautiful dried!
I’m sure you probably already figured this out and that other people have commented this, but I thought I’d express this just to make sure☺️ hehehehehe. The large flowers got bent and folded over and smashed when put into the freeze dryer. Is it possible to remove a rack so they have more height to sit in and then that way they don’t get smashed? I don’t know if you can remove the racks or not.
I think the dahlias would have done just fine had you not crushed them. they were too close to the pan above them. if you only did 2 pans at a time it would let them have room.I think you'd find your Dahlia's would look beautiful
Ants taste like lemons, that would just add to the flavor!
You and Nathan are such a power house team a beautiful couple with amazing kiddos!! Thanks for the encouraging videos you aput out for the world to see
I wonder if the dinner plates didn’t have enough room to stand up true to form. He had to flatten them a little to get them in dryer. I still think it’s a great way to do wreaths.
OMG! Your flowers are so lovely and I think they came out great in your freeze dryer. I am wondering if instead of tossing any out, try selling them like on crafter's sites like Etsy where you could bag the ones you think are not so great and let crafter's use the petals and such in their projects (i.e. people who make jewelry from flowers and resin). Just a thought!
Borage creates a beautiful star flower in a tiny purpley blue color and I bet they would freeze dry well and would be so pretty on a small wreath or something dainty, etc.
Might be blessed soon to press flowers in a nursing home I volunteer with at my church. They're basically stuck in there and love projects. Love and respect the elderly…..
What type of blackberries are you growing?
I don't know how the freeze dryer is made but I'm wondering if you can dry the dahlias using just two trays with space in between.
💚 How lovely are those freeze-dried flowers! There's lots of possibilities there! I saw a Three Rivers Homestead vlog where she freeze-dried Calendula flowers and one of the daughters strung some up in a garland and hung it along the top of the window. Love your footage of harvesting the flowers together 💚
What a great idea and the flowers look so cool! Thanks for sharing:)
My aunt freeze dried flowers from my grandma’s funeral in February and put them in shadow boxes for us grandkids. Grandma loved flowers and always had them in buckets of silica gel around her house or pressed in her Bible. The freeze dried flowers were so special for us!
I had yellow color lady bug's and they killed my plants. If anyone knows how to kill them let me know. They got my green beans and squash. And yellow tiny fuzzy caterpillars. Please help. I live i north east me MD.
No dont toss them.. create a potpourri with them. That'd be an awesome gift for you to give someone.
I have a frame that holds my Grandmother's bridal flowers. I'm really not sure how she preserved them, but they are amazing., edited to add that my grandmother was married in the 1920's
Nate is such a darling man. You know the whole time he is wishing he was with the pigs.
So fun with an abundance of options on what to do with them. I don't have a freeze dryer, yet, but one day. There are just so many uses for one. The flowers really kept their color well.
Thanks for sharing.
Some looked like the large flower’s petals bent over when you put them in?
So can you take the small ones out early? The large ones every other tray?
Do you know how long they will last? Will they rehydrate themselves in anyway?
I just got a freeze dryer and grew flowers this year and I had been looking into this as well. Very excited to try it
This is so neat! You should keep some of them and build a beautiful shadow box with all different stages of the flowers and put it somewhere in your home. Thanks for sharing! Blessings 🥰
Can I ask where you got your dahlia tubers?
That's super cool!
What brand coffee machine do you have? My wife needs ones Tia
❤️ flowers
You’d want to place smaller less dense in one batch which would run less time & the thicker denser ones like coneflower in its own batch which would run longer….
That is so neat!!
Maybe the smooshed dinnerplate dahlias got "damaged" when they were entered in the freeze dryer not by the proccess. When Nathan was entering the trays i saw that some were too big for the slot space. All the dahlias have only one side damaged not both.
I was hoping to be able to see some of the colors of these flowers but the filter she used is so heavy, who knows what the real colors are