Such beauty! I'm a retired florist. I learned from my floral design instructor, Ann Patrick, how to extend the freshness of cut flowers. Here it is - just in case you are interested. 1) have a bucket of water to place the cut flowers, right after you harvest them. 2) Optional; however it works amazingly great especially with hydrangeas, place a wet paper towel over the bucket of cut flowers 3) If available, place in a cool/dark place, or in a flower cooler, if you have one. Extra tip: It is not recommended to tough white flower petals, as they will damage/turn brown easily. I really enjoy your videos. After you take the out of the bucket with water and set them on the table, you could increase their freshness, by re-cutting the stem before placing them in water again. The flowers may get an air bubble, which can prevent them from taking up water, after they have been out of the water for a few minutes.

Presented by the Garden Diva of Flower Hill Farm..............gorgeous. Nicole is on the cusp of famousness.

Excellent choice on the porch furniture. It fits uour family and your porch. I feel the same about outside furniture, very picky, rather do without than buy something I don't really want.

I actually had the dark maroon dahlias in my wedding bouquet! Too bad I don’t live close, because I would have gotten some for my 10 year anniversary ❤️

@n.w.414

2 жыл бұрын

Oh those would have been so gorgeous in a wedding bouquet

@stephaniewarren9285

2 жыл бұрын

I just did my daughters bridal bouquet on the 21st and I used them as well! They were stunning!

so relax to watching beautiful flowers.

You can thank all the fires burning out west bringing you all that potash. Those dahlias are truly beautiful though. I’m glad you didn’t give up on growing them either.

I planted my first dahlia border this spring (started tubers in pots, then transplanted) and I can't drag myself away from the window. The blossoms are absolutely gorgeous and I can't wait to add a few more varieties!

Oh they are so so pretty!! Congratulations on a great season!

WONDERFUL ❤ looking forward to more episodes!

Gorgeous dahlias! Incredible! Love the porch furniture too.

These are beautiful! I am also having an amazing dahlia year and I’m in heaven! 🥰

Those are so gorgeous! I love Dahlias but only started planting them from tubers this year and they are looking good...

Nicole - really loving the porch furniture - omg. And the dahlias - AMAZING!!!! Just keep doing it!

Just stunning! I am a Dahlia lover! There really is nothing like a 9" dinner plate dahlia! Thanks for sharing your beauties with us Nicole!

That mystery orange/fuchsia dahlia, I have it too! It came in a package with the name Color Spectacle but it absolutely does not look like the dahlia on the label--orange with white tips. I definitely love this one waaay more though. Glad to see that you had a ton more success with dahlias this year!! Woot, woot!! PS. Love the new porch furniture, so cozy!!

Beautiful! 😍 Thanks for the update on the Jessica Dahlias. 😉

I am only just getting buds, so hoping for a flower filled September. I have been disappointed that the dahlias have taken so long, but you give me hope not to give up!

They are all so beautiful!

Loved the whipped cream topping on a banana cream pie. Your dahlias are gorgeous 😍.

They are all stunning, my favorites are cafe au lait and dark ones:)) Looking forward to the next season, I feel it will be exciting!!

I understand your excitement where dahlias are concerned they are really one of mother nature's biggest flower success stories 😊

I actually really love the single dahlias, I think there is so much elegance in their simplicity. The super fluffy ones are amazing as well, of course. 🌸

@FlowerHillFarm

2 жыл бұрын

I do too! For me they just aren't worth the effort to dig and store the tubers for the winter when I can just have them again from seed next season (unless there is a special one that I adore). I think I will definitely ALWAYS grow them that way! So pretty!

Stunning! Nicole, you did a amazing job on your farm this year.

@FlowerHillFarm

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

You are so funny, love from Australia , it’s the first day of spring for us, I love your channel.

Absolutely beautiful. My dahlias were doing pretty great until about a week ago when they all developed some sort of curly, gnarly leaf issue. The buds all became really tiny and gnarly too. I'm so sad thinking my season is over since I only have 10 plants and they are almost all infected. I cut them all down to where the leaves look relatively normal and sprayed. Hope I'll get some healthy new growth and maybe flowers for October.

I love the Dahlias from seeds, they are beautiful ♡

I think your Cafe Au Lait looks like a Cafe Au Lait Royal, with the magenta pink tones on it. I am going to guess the rainy summer has helped tremendously. Dahlias are fussy customers! Perfect amounts of fertilizer and water are needed. Congrats on your success. They are lovely!

👍 before even watching cos we know we will love it ♡

I've decided I love the tiny ones, too!

Omg I absolutely LOVE Fleurel! It was the first dahlia I ever grew and I’m growing more from the tubers I saved last year. I can’t believe how big yours got though!!

Grew for the 1st year dahlia i got thomas edison, cafe au lait, tahiti sunrise, mystery day, and color spectacle and blue boy man i love all of them

@bethheerten1132

2 жыл бұрын

Careful...they are addictive.😄

@anniewildmush1284

2 жыл бұрын

@@bethheerten1132 oh i know!!!

Your dahlias are amazing! Love the new porch furniture@

Beautiful! My Dahlias are FINALLY budding up so I hope to have blooms in the next few days. This is my first year growing Dahlias and I am so excited. They weren't the healthiest tubers when I bought them (Costco and Walmart specials haha) but hopefully I can save healthy tubers from them and get earlier blooms next year! I hope this season for you is better than you dreamed it would be. We all love seeing you grow and succeed!

@lorindav5549

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! Love me some clearance plants. Fingers crossed.

Loved the new porch furniture! Looks fantastic. I really liked the Jessica dahlias, but I must have missed the blue ones….🌸

Ok you have convinced me to try them again, l will purchase seeds and tubers...for next year...

Beautiful! Makes me wish I could grow dahlias here in SW Florida. I really enjoyed this video.

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So happy you didn’t give up on Dahlias too!!! 💓They are Amazing!! I love your “Think face - light bulb face!”😁

@FlowerHillFarm

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

I think of dahlias as zinnias lit from within. Love their translucence! Also, they remind me of my uncle, who used to collect and show them.

Stunning!! Loving all you share from North Idaho zone 6a 💚🌻🌿

Oh how I wish they would thrive in our texas heat. They are beyond beautiful 😍

Love love love em all.

ALL SOOO BEAUTIFUL ❣️💮🌼🌸🏵️🌺🌹

So beautiful! I esp love the big white and the light pink look like powder puffs! Shared to fb too!

Your dahlias are amazing. I found three small frogs living in my dahlia this morning. 🐸🌸🐸🌸🐸

Omg. 😳 Cannot wait for October. In the subtropics, winter is the dahlia season and i am soo gonna try to get my hands on some of these amazing ones. The tsuki is just. 😭😭✨

Stunning!

Wedding schmedding! I don't have a wedding, but I'll take one of those dark & white bouquets anyway!!! They're just BEA-U-TE-MUS!

That Michaela Miranda takes my breath away - i must have! And the Joey M's gorge!

Beautiful! I am a sucker for the autumn colors. I'm in zone 4 as well, if only I could have dahlias in November, my Thanksgiving table would be jammed packed with burgundy and orange dahlias 🥰

Have you tried swan islands recommendation for extending dahlia vase life? They recommend to place the stems in hot water 165’F if I remember right, until the water cools and it will help the vase life be 5-7 days long. Love your channel and garden!

Yay! The video drought is over 😊 I hope you are able to record during the busy season, I'll gladly watch July flowers in bitter cold January 🥶❄️🧊🌨️❄️

@FlowerHillFarm

2 жыл бұрын

I posted one yesterday too!

I got my dahlias seeds from botanical interests it’s all decorative it’s really beautiful but the heat wave gave them lots of problem and the bugs got them too, next year I’ll try tubers.

I love your dahlias Love it so much 💕

I'm growing dahlias for the first time this year. From seed! I'm so excited to see them budding up and can't wait to see what they'll look like. You're are wonderful and I love those dark maroons! Love your channel, Nicole!

@ahavarichardson5426

2 жыл бұрын

I did too!! Started late but I'm in 8b with a micro climate of 9, 10, 11

@michellekrantz888

2 жыл бұрын

@@ahavarichardson5426 I'm in 5b, started mine end of April inside. Hope you have good results!

I think I like the dahlias from seed better than the tuber ones 😍

Your dahlias are gorgeous!

I don't think I've met a dahlia I didn't like.... my fav 2nd only to glads!

Beautiful! I love the burgundy shades. Dahlias are so hard to give up aren’t they? I learned a lot this year. I will either leave mine in ground and covered well or dig and presprout. My newbies rotted from our irrigation but the presprouted ones grew like giants .

Nice porch furniture!

Your dahlias are stunning❤︎

Oh how I miss you when you don't post! 😥 These are georgous!!!💜❤

Beautiful

I don’t stake my dahlias either. And I leave them in the ground 🙈. But I’m in New Zealand .. that may make a difference. They are a beautiful flower my grandma grew them all around her house 💗

I had never seen or heard of a dahlia until I started watching you...N I C O L E! I come from real down home country folk!! My family grew veggies and my mom grew some flowers! Nothing exotic, I tell people that I'm from L.A. ....Lower Alabama, Your love for them has transferred to me! Started seeds late, because I just had to try! So I'm learning with everyone, but What about those MYSTERY FOX dahlias

My dahlia's are just starting to bud up here in Canadian 3b. We shall see.

Your dahlias are absolutely gorgeous. I think maybe the way that you grew them so closely is the ideal way to grow that way you do not have to stake them I do you believe that's the answer. I'm going to try that next year and see if that's the answer of what we're really looking for and the Dahlia growing season. Brilliant thank you for showing us this way to grow and to enjoy.

@FlowerHillFarm

2 жыл бұрын

12 inch spacing!

Beautiful!! Don't you think all Dahlias are "unicorns and butterflies"?! :) Having a good first season this year, already placed my order for next year including Gerrie Hoek, among others; Black Satin was the free gift. The color is a bold move for me but I like the contrast with the others. Can't believe you didn't have to stake, my garden is a maze of posts and poles holding everything up...even with the pinching...LOL!

Beautiful. I did a small cut flower garden for the first time this year. I had success with some things and failure with others primarily my dahlias. I planted only 10 and they all came up and were doing great. Some were just starting to produce buds when we had a week of really rainy weather back in July and I lost them all to rot. Disappointed but lesson learned and have changes in mind for next year. All that beauty inspires me to keep trying.

@cynthiafisher9907

2 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry. This was my first year too and all mine rotted before they came up. Bummer.

@rubyoro0

2 жыл бұрын

Will you chase the rain away?

@amyurich4616

2 жыл бұрын

I clearly didn't do a good job of chasing the rain away yesterday. I'm in south central PA and we got about 7 or so inches of rain from Ida. I walked around this morning and everything just looks so sad from being so waterlogged. Beautiful day out there today so hopefully things dry out well. This year my dahlia area had extra rain water directed to it due to a taper in the yard. I never realized how much extra rain water went through that area until I tried putting dahlias there. We are redoing that taper so hopefully next year will produce better results.

Wow!! Those are beautiful! My dalhia season was a flop. Plant Killer error on my part. But hey lesson learned for next year. 🙂 I'd love to know how the farmer's market is going for you.

Hey Sweet Pea. Mine are just starting to shoot. Hope mine will be as beautiful as yours 🥰🌸

I’m glad you tried again. I grew them for the first time this year and very disappointed. I live in a zone 7 with very high humidity and heat. I read they hate humidity and high heat. So I’m going to give it one more go next year. I did discover they need a lot of water so that could be what made yours great this year. Yours are stunning!

@gaiachild3950

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Debbie, I'm in zone 7 Richmond and have found that a dahlia called Natalie G bloomed all summer for me this year. But this is its second year growing and I didn't take it out of the ground last year. My Myrtle's Folly is a bust. It also took 2 years in the ground for my Blue Boy to get going. Dahlias in our area tend to wait until it gets cooler before they start blooming.

@debdd7

2 жыл бұрын

@@gaiachild3950 thanks for that info. I have heard different information regarding overwintering them in the ground. Do you mulch a lot over them? Our winters are usually mild but this year we got 6 inches of snow and negative 13. Very unusual!!! But I didn’t lose any of my plants. I did wrap burlap around my few potted evergreens. I don’t have a lot invested in dahlias so I’ll try overwintering them.

Love your flowers. I was just on your neck of the woods. I should have stopped

Love your videos and love the day has I was wondering have you tried an experiment of put them in food color and water to see what would happen to the lighter colored ones

Maybe I will try a few. Too pretty.

God's beauty is real💜Thank you😍

You need carolina moon she is a waterlilly very plentiful in flowers and good stem length very unicorn and rainbows and lasts very well in a vase 10 days ish

Loved this. I bought my first ever 24 last yr, with no where to go with them. Had my 2 grandsons help me pull up the flagstone patio by the pond for those. Just yesterday went on Swan Islands site and somehow controlled myself to order just 4. But, there's a few other sites I plan to visit, I see grandson help coming this spring.

I wish that was the case for me. Anything with hight flopped in my gardens. Dahlia branches broke off, Lisianthus and snap dragons fell over, Amaranth and Asters just about up rooted. It was mostly a heavy rain issue! Still all gorgeous...just annoying!

Good Morning Nichole❤️ I’m thinking about ordering some dahlias. Before the winter would I need to dig up my tubers. I’m in zone 6. Love your videos.💕

You totally made me yawn 🥱 when you yawned while doing the voiceover, lol! 😆

@FlowerHillFarm

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣 I almost did it over but…you can’t say I’m not authentic 🤣🤣

@debmichelleparks3

2 жыл бұрын

@@FlowerHillFarm, I loved it, made me laugh!

All my adult life was working full out in nursing , raising foster, birth, adopted kids, advocating for kids and just trying to keep some clean dishes, clothes. I never had time or videos to even consider flowers beyond lilly of the valley, hostas and cosmos which had to take care of themselves. Not saying I will grow like you do but I do enjoy watching your gorgeous blooms and the joy you radiate. thank you for being you

@gabriellakadar

2 жыл бұрын

Was.... past tense? Time for you. Time for flowers.

@cherylcarlson3315

2 жыл бұрын

@@gabriellakadar 😒 have 2 rare neuromuscular diseases that gifted me with crushing fatigue, weakness, shortness of breath,loss of balance. I was someone else before I hit 59. Now 63...

@gabriellakadar

2 жыл бұрын

@@cherylcarlson3315 Yup, I've had mega problems for 25 years. Do what I can. So I get it.

@cherylcarlson3315

2 жыл бұрын

@@gabriellakadar how long did it take to adjust to limitations without crying or being angry?

@gabriellakadar

2 жыл бұрын

@@cherylcarlson3315 You mean to not drive into a bridge abutment and end it all? I didn't have energy for anger. I just make sure I'm topped up with all the vitamins, minerals, omega 3s, and take muscle relaxants when necessary, aspirin sometimes, low dose naltrexone (although I don't know......I guess it helps but if I do some activity that goes past tolerance levels it hurts like hell). Plus my thyroid was low so now I've got it as good as it can get. All sorts of stuff happens together and sorting it out is like a lifetime job. I was so exhausted, it took me a few seconds to figure out why trying to fill my gasoline car with diesel wasn't working. It was THAT bad. I had to fight the doctors to get what I need and it took years. It's hard to advocate for ourselves when we are so weak and sick. Medicine is misogynist even the women doctors. It's sad but true.

I have completely fallen in love with dahlias! Are there any tricks on getting them to last longer in the vase? I only get about 3-4 days out of my Cafe Au Laits. Ordering a bunch for next year.

Just noticed you're at 34k subscribers! 👊

I Love Dhalias

Nicole - you probably know this but Impatient Gardener is doing a live KZread with Longfield on Dahlias on September 1 at 6:00 pm (time zone unknown - I think she’s in Michigan)

Beautiful. The first Dahlia in the video, the peach with burgundy foliage. Do you have the name for that one. I love the contrast of leaves to flower. 😍

Any idea of what the name is of the red one at 12:28? It's beautiful! Thanks for sharing your farm with us! Looking forward to the chicken update.

@FlowerHillFarm

2 жыл бұрын

Anthony Armelin!

Kocham dalie to moje ulubione kwiaty Ogladam Panią i podiwiam

@FlowerHillFarm

2 жыл бұрын

Dziękuję Ci bardzo

they are all sooooo gorgeous!!! i'm wondering if you pinched any of these? especially the ones from tubers? its about to be spring here and i'm planting them for the first time and not sure if i should pinch or not

@FlowerHillFarm

2 жыл бұрын

I pinched just a few. The others my first cut acted as pinch.

@missymoo16

2 жыл бұрын

@@FlowerHillFarm thank you so very much for your reply

I think you don’t need to stake if you have them planted close because I ran out of stakes and have a couple plants right next to each other and they aren’t staked either and both plants are upright and not flopping. Any tricks to getting better vase life? I end up not cutting mine because they don’t last. Also virginia gets so much rain I’m losing some to tuber rot. I’m wondering if I mulch better if I could keep them. So sad my jowie Mirela is my first bloomer and the others I’m still waiting on.

Those Jessica dahlias are the loveliest shade of blue 🤣😂 jk

@FlowerHillFarm

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

What's the best food to keep the dahlias stored in? Please and thank you.

Can you please show us the proper stage for cutting dahlias? I struggle so much with picking at the proper time and often pick to late and get a poor vase life.

@EvelynM-vlogs

2 жыл бұрын

You can pick at any time, just cut 12 hours in advance and store in a cool place in air temp water. I cut in the evening so they can rest and hydrate overnight and my customers say they get over a week out of the dinnerplates.

Ugh those bugs! How do you keep them off your gorgeous blooms?

I had your no net confidence once... Just about every crop ended up laid over from rain 😂😭 🤦🏼‍♀️ 🤣

@FlowerHillFarm

2 жыл бұрын

We’ve had the rainiest season in 30 years with torrential downpours! The only crop bothered was the statice 🤷‍♀️

@sarahsewell4535

2 жыл бұрын

@@FlowerHillFarm wow, I am surprised! The flower gods blessed you 🥰 My spring crops did great, my first summer planting didn’t even try 😂 your farm looks amazing this year! You’re making leaps and bounds, so happy you went full time 🙌🏻 keep it up!

Noticed you had a thermacell on your table, I just bought one, how do you like it?

LOVE dahlias! But mine are on such short stems, barely above the leaves. Is this just a type of dahlia or is something wrong? I don't like these at all. Oh, and did you start all these from seed?

I would just be tickled if mine would but Up In Bloom I got plenty of plant but no Bloom or flower

Can you do a quick tutorial how you cut and condition your dahlias? I’ve tried the hot water trick and I still can’t get them fully hydrated somehow.

@EvelynM-vlogs

2 жыл бұрын

I grow and sell the flowers from 135 dinnerplate dahlias in my roadside flower wagon. The secret to hydrating them properly is to cut them in the evening, place them immediately into air temp water (I just use my hose and a bucket) and then keep them in a cool - not cold - place overnight or for about 12hrs. This lets them hydrate and rest before being exposed to the heat and sun of the next day. When I started cutting in the evening rather than the morning the difference was obvious.