First Floral Arrangement of the Season! ✨🌻

[@QueenAnnesLace13]

Oh my goodness, that amaranthus is a beast! Bee line dancing, lovin' it😅. The bee videos was awesome, thanks for taking the time to educate us.

[@SydneyDorman]

So glad people are liking the bee videos! I will definitely keep them coming!

[@marybeth4002]

Beautiful, just beautiful. Love the combination of the purple and the lime green.

[@peggy-ann1961]

Perfectly perfect in every way! 🇨🇦👏🌸

[@bettedenny4730]

Beautiful arrangement. I love the color combination.

[@Rougebasque]

Lovely! I also love lime and purple.

[@CarolMalcomb-s4u]

Absolutely beautiful. Peaceful and relaxing bouquet

[@sherismith2002]

Beautiful color combo, just love the arrangement!!❤

[@CharlotteWilcox-h8j]

Gorgeous bouquet! I’m so hoping for an inside home tour soon! Love all your videos!

[@ceciliadelgado6899]

So, so lovely! Love the colors!!

[@judyburton6338]

Very pretty. This year I planted cosmos, zinnias and small sunflowers. I had never planted cosmos before and thought I would try after watching your videos.

[@SydneyDorman]

Cosmos are great!

[@barbaraamccorkle7424]

Very pretty.

[@lindastuckey3131]

Beautiful!!!!

[@KayeCarterTV]

Love ♥️ it and this arrangement is absolutely beautiful. Another favorite video. Sending hugs, prayers and kindness with a daily dose of encouragement ♥️👍🏼🌹🙏🏼🇺🇸ps 94 degrees here

[@QueenAyeee]

Hi Sydney The arrangement is beautiful. You're so talented. Thank you for sharing😊

[@juliapounds1391]

LOVE IT!!!

[@deeshires8721]

Beautiful!

[@susanmulvey6311]

It’s so cool and interesting seeing the bees “dance” back and forth like that! Beautiful flower arrangement!!🌷👏🏻

[@connieclay5527]

Love the arrangement! So glad you added the lime zinnias! They really pop with that fuschia color! I live in MN, zone 4, and our high today is 82. We've had heavy rains since spring following a dry winter, and very little rain last year. So grateful for sunshine and heat to make our gardens grow. Our vegetable and flower gardens need warmth!

[@cb779]

Gorgeous 🥰

[@pamhouglan4710]

Lovely arrangement!

[@lucyllanio8950]

So pretty

[@tonyatowery393]

Love the flower arrangement you put together! What a satisfying treat to adorn your beautiful home with gorgeous, fresh cut flowers right from your own garden. And please keep the 🐝 vids coming! Love watching them!

[@bettenotap4791]

Beautiful arrangement Sydney! The texture and lime color is magic. Our high today will be 80.6 but will feel like 96.8 because of the humidity. 🥵

[@jacquilewis3777]

Beautiful 😍 You have an amazing talent for arranging your stunning flowers

[@lynnthow1650]

So pretty!💜

[@marjoriegreen2]

Oh, Sydney, that is fabulous! Thank you. Please go over the names of your zinnias seeds and where you got them.

[@LindaBaker-l1b]

WOW, Sydney, you're such an expert at flower arranging! This is a gorgeous combination of colors!

[@Brendabee32]

Really beautiful - pretty special to go out and cut your own flowers and arrange them! I can only watch! Thank you for a lovely video-certainly enjoyed it!

[@vickijackson9115]

Absolutely beautiful flowers. Love the colors. ☺️

[@kathyley5661]

That really is beautiful.

[@pamelaglefke5899]

beautiful garden and arrangement. Im in zone 6B, near Detroit. It has been so hot for so long. my peonies and lilacs were 4 weeks early. It finally cooled down yesterday because we had crazy rain and wind. Should be in 70's and 80's for the next week, but we had 90's for a while, with high humidity. I've had lots of bees on my lavender, bee balm and coneflower. No butterflies yet, even with milkweed. I enjoy your channel. Take care. p.s. I know what you mean about the "garden mind". It's hard to stay focused on one spot at a time, and my garden is small. You are doing great with such a large garden!

[@pattik8335]

Gorgeous arrangement! Love the color combinations. SE Pennsylvania (zone 7a/b) 90's for weeks. So tired of it.

[@antoinettewawrzyniak1288]

I live in Northwest Ohio and it is only getting up to 83 today. Rained a lot yesterday but today is beautiful. We are in zone 6. Love the arrangement.

[@SydneyDorman]

Jealous of 83 degree temps!! Enjoy it!

[@SuperB719]

Flower arrangement is magnificent

[@derondadozier1938]

Beautiful absolutely beautiful

[@marygueldenzoph7317]

Love to hear those birds just chattering away! Lovely flowers! Thanks for sharing. (Oh, and I was fascinated by your video on the bees cross combing. Bee keeping is hard work!)

[@1964valentine]

Beautiful colors together and nice arrangement.

[@buttonsacorns3734]

What a pretty arrangement! The chartreuse zinnias are stunning. So glad you are doing arrangements again, I have always enjoyed those videos. Try to stay cool.😎

[@JRP58]

What a lovely arrangement!

[@kellys1113]

Very lovely arrangement!! So relaxing to watch you put it together. I admire your bee keeping and gardening in that extreme heat. We've had much higher than average temps this week in Eugene, OR -zone 8b - 100+ for several days. Fortunately we're heading back into 80s by week's end. Really enjoy your channel!

[@susankilpatrick2918]

Stunning colour combinations and textures!

[@bobr9895]

Love the beautiful arrangement, the lime green zinnia is my fav, makes the other colors pop.

[@lindamurns1245]

Oooooo, I love that arrangement 😉

[@barbaracarlson1331]

Very pretty! Love the spike flowers and the green!

[@janetdavis5619]

Love the arrangement. The bees are amazing, and they were definitely dancing!😊 💜💚 I love flowers arranging one of my passions!! 🌿🪻

[@anjieconaway2560]

Girl. That is beautiful. The amaranthus trees were worth it lol. But the lime green zinnia is just what it needed.

[@SydneyDorman]

lol amaranthus tree is a very accurate description. That variety was supposed to be coral fountain with coral seed heads. Obviously not the variety I received. 😂

[@anjieconaway2560]

@@SydneyDorman oh. Yea. Coral fountain would be gorgeous.

[@janzatovich6677]

Central Iowa 82 today. heading toward some days of 90 degree Temps over the next several days. AND of course, our lovely humidity is full on as well. But that's what grows the best cream and sugar sweetcorn I've ever tasted. ❤ zone 5

[@SharonHenscheid]

It’s gorgeous… love the colors 💕🥰

[@donnawright5749]

North Carolina 97 degrees..it’s so fun to see your garden grow.

[@lianeabeyta4515]

Chartreuse and purple are a color combination made in heaven!!!!! Love this so much. Here in California we have had multiple days of triple digits. Too hot to be out in the garden , unless its 6 o'clock in the morning.

[@lindamiklos4964]

You are so talented Sydney,that's a spectacular arrangement.love the colors 😊

[@keoweedesigner5995]

Zone 7 in South Carolina. We have had multiple days with a heat index above 100 and no rain. We all are struggling just to keep our landscapes alive. Even heat loving plants like Echinacea, Shasta Daisy and Geraniums are prostrate in this relentless heat. So .... your lovely, cool, Summery arrangement was just the therapy I needed ❤

[@SydneyDorman]

Keep trucking along! Just gotta get to some cooler temps and everything will take off again! Easier said than done. Takes a lot of extra watering hours this time of year!

[@kayjones6661]

Absolutely stunning

[@susanschellberg4509]

Gorgeous. Love the colors and the different textures. In zone 7b Washington DC. We're having a little reprieve in temps today after 6 days in the mid 90's.

[@beverlyasleson3321]

Wow that is a tall plant would have liked to see how much you cut it back. That’s too hot to work in the garden bless your heart. The bees are amazing you are awesome showing us what you do with them in your last video I have to go back and finish watching it. The bouquet looks great 👍 ❤

[@lisatague305]

Gorgeous

[@cindyb.1360]

Beautiful arrangement.

[@janetgould6612]

Beautiful arrangement! The Limey Queen Zinnias really topped it off. Supposed to be 112 here today in California zone 9b. At least we don’t have the high humidity to go with that.

[@ShielaF-b9z]

Beautiful 👍

[@annjones345]

90’s in PA…very dry….love your flowers

[@esterrivera2281]

Beautiful San Diego temp 70s

[@helenf9650]

Beautiful! The joy of having a florist shop in your garden! I saw someone on homeworthy condition her flowers by cutting the stems on the angle but under water in a bowl of just boiled water. She held them under water for a few minutes to see air bubbles rise, then placed them in the vase. Seems to make them last a bit longer. 🌸✨

[@SydneyDorman]

They absolutely do and that’s a great tip! Works well with hydrangeas also but I change my arrangement weekly so it’s just an unnecessary step for me!

[@dorothymanns292]

This is beautiful 🌸

[@zzzzipy12]

Beautiful arrangement! Isn’t it nice to go out & gather from your own garden! And such busy bees! I’m in Sherwood AR, across the river from Little Rock; we got a break in the heat from Beryl blowing through & a nice rain. but next week, the hotter than hades weather is back!

[@robintranchina6588]

Zone 9a, Foley, AL; currently 90 degrees with 56% humidity. love what you are growing! My zinnias & dahlias are struggling, but holding on. We just put in irrigation in April and I’m glad we did!

[@missouriartiste]

Beautiful Sydney. I live in Washington Missouri, it is going to be unusually cooler today of 87 degrees, due to Beryl. It had rained for 3 days here and will be extremely humid when the sun comes out. My daughter lives in Broken Arrow and know how your weather is down there, a little bit hotter and drier than here in MO. Garden on!

[@lynnmacleod1879]

Nicely done Sydney!

[@irispresley3182]

Beautiful arrangements

[@Debbie-k7y]

Very pretty!

[@erinn5319]

The Amaranthe will put off some seeds so watch out it happened to me. I had a neighbor that they thought it was a tree it was that big loving your garden by the way. The bee video was very educational for me. I didn’t know a lot about bees and I really enjoyed it.💕it’s 103 today in Utah zone 6b.

[@shareenstone6673]

Beautiful arrangement! 99 has been our highest in Roanoke Virginia with high humidity. Happy Gardening 😊

[@salimorton641]

Zone 9b/10 West Central Florida we have a drippy rain currently it has been very hot in the afternoons but today we are 80* 76% humidity. I really like the arrangement!

[@bethjohnson8234]

Gorgeous, very pretty…stay cool

[@martivasiliades8407]

Beautiful! Nice choices of flowers and colors !

[@CarolMalcomb-s4u]

From ND and we have low 90’s today and several more to come

[@CarolynOfria-hn3ty]

Zone 7 upper mid-TN . We had a small cool down after Tuesdays rain. It's going to be 89 today, but we'll be back to mid 90's for the rest of the week. Heat index has made pretty miserable. Beautiful flower arrangement. I grow a lot of the queen series zinnias.

[@lindadixon1766]

Beautiful!💐

[@imeldamayer-taylor2783]

Good morning from Vienna Austria, hot here 30 degrees Celsius already. So lovely to harvest your own flowers for bouquets. Beautiful as ever., judging from the initial photo.😍👏😍🌸🌼🌸

[@jaferjane9716]

Beautiful❤❤❤ I live in North Texas….mid nineties today…we need rain!

[@SydneyDorman]

The summer has been a brutal on this far and we haven’t gotten some rain so I can only imagine! My in laws live in north Texas and have said that same.

[@maryreilly5837]

I’m in Durham NC and our temps have been in upper 90’s for a couple weeks. Way too hot and humid. Heat index usually over 106 degrees.

[@SydneyDorman]

It’s a brutal summer and we aren’t even to August yet! 🥵

[@cjstephenson3121]

Beautiful

[@teresayager2791]

Your giant amaranth is Love-Lies-Bleeding, a Victorian bedding plant that is edible. You didn't select the wrong seeds. Sometimes, they just show up when you're planting the seeds you bought. The blooms are showy and spectacular, don't cut them all back.

[@SydneyDorman]

The variety I ordered was coral fountain with coral seed heads so definitely not the variety I received and planted. But I wasn’t sure of the variety that I actually have. I hadn’t bothered to look it up. I’ll check out love lies!

[@barbaramccann7944]

Northwest Michigan, high today of 72°, but the current humidity is 91%. A quick dunk in Grand Traverse Bay or Lake Michigan is my remedy for cooling off. I winter sowed my zinnias and they were good sized when I planted them on June 1st. But, they are just coming into flower. So interesting to see how quickly yours have grown, from direct seeding to flowers, in a hot climate.

[@marciamellow1211]

Your good....beautiful ❤

[@LeighWalker-dd9bg]

St. Louis Mo. just got through the end of beryl so we are cooler than normal and the highest amount of rain in July. Not normal. Have been very hot before that but only around 100-102 degrees

[@mariemcgrath8681]

Just beautiful, you are so talented. Do your Bees 'sting' ? I was stung by a wasp once on my upper lip, ended up in ER my whole face was so swollen!

[@SydneyDorman]

My bees will sting. Bees aren’t like wasps however. They don’t want to sting me bc they die when they do. Wasps can sting multiple times without dying while bees cannot. Bees can only sting other bees multiple times without dying but if they sting a mammal, they die. So, I usually only get stung if I put my hand directly on a bee and somewhat start to squish them. Hard to avoid with that many bees around but I don’t get stung too often!

[@wendymckee6627]

I’m in the U.K. and we have not had a spring or summer. No sun. Just rain. Nothing is growing and things are dying becuase of the amount of rain. My summer annuals have not grown. I went out wearing a coat the other day. In July!!!!!!! I’m so devastated. We spent so much money on our garden in the spring and I have not been about to go out there at all.

[@imeldamayer-taylor2783]

So sorry to read this, so hot here in Austria.

[@SydneyDorman]

I hate that. I’m so sorry to hear! Hoping you all will dry out!! 🤞🏼

[@joannechapman8455]

I’m in Virginia and we have had temps in the high 90’s with heat index over 100 also…with 90+ percent humidity but no rain to speak of. I can’t remember a drought like this so early in the season. Gardening has been challenging.😊

[@SydneyDorman]

I’m ready for a cool down and we aren’t even to August yet 🥵

[@lindafrederick4250]

👍🥰

[@Crazycat980]

I love the Amaranth, and it looks as if your seeds were for a tree, not a plant! 😮😂😮!. I have a friend who uses amaranth in his arrangements, tending to use red amaranth. Amaranth is certainly exotic snd looks fantastic in an arrangement! This is beautiful!

[@SydneyDorman]

I was so bummed my red dye Hopi variety germinated extremely late and the other variety over took them. I’ll try again next year and arrange the amaranthus in a different way. I should have removed some of the other variety to give the red dye room but I didn’t. Also, the variety that is going crazy was supposed to be coral fountain and it’s obviously a different variety so I’m not sure exactly what variety it is. 😂

[@perezomamalin9063]

🌺🌺🌺💚🌺🌺🌺

[@anjieconaway2560]

Btw. I'm in NE Arkansas, literally straight across from y'all. Same weather here. My yard looks like crap because I'm 60 and do NOT tolerate heat like I used to. Heat index here has been up to 112 The hurricane cooled our area down.

[@SydneyDorman]

The hot is brutal. I totally understand. I have to force myself to go out there and get stuff done with it’s that hot!

[@jordannahefter4059]

Greenville, Wisconsin Zone 5b going to be a high of 81 degrees today

[@cacticollector6542]

Hi Sydney, I live in the Inland Empire, Southern California. Today it was 103*. I redid 4 of my containers that I have on my front porch. They all have succulents in them. I also spray painted my rod iron trellises and porch railing. By 2 o’clock it was 101* so I had to get in the house and cool down. Your arrangement turned out really pretty. It seemed like you were able to work pretty well with the bee sting. Is your hand even sore?

[@SydneyDorman]

The stings aren’t too bad. I don’t have much of a reaction to them. The sting location gets a little warm and itches a bit but that’s about it!

[@valerierichards7455]

Love your channel Sydney. I live in Ardmore and my garden is overrun with grasshoppers. What do you use to kill those? My flowers are so damaged. Ugh

[@SydneyDorman]

Hi! Thankfully I’ve never had to deal with grasshoppers. I know they can be a bit hard to control organically. I’ve heard of people using neem oil mixed with water and soap with some success. I think handpicking when you have a bunch of adults is beneficial. Maybe some other folks on here can chime in that have had some success controlling them without harsh chemicals.

[@MaxineButterfield]

we live in Australia ,rosebud / Melbourne by the buy 9.0c last night zero 🥶🥶

[@ShirleyJDavis]

93 here in Monroe Georgia @ 5:45 pm

[@SydneyDorman]

It’s a hot one this year! 🥵

[@suzanne529]

What kind of bird is that chirping away? Those amaranthus are huge!! It was low 100's the last 3 days but 95 was the high for today. Southern Willamette Valley, Oregon. Zone 8b 9a. We are near the Coast mountain range. The bouquet is so pretty, all your hard work paid off!

[@juanitavaldez1907]

A pest, English Sparrow

[@SydneyDorman]

Honestly, I’m not sure. We have so many birds around I didn’t even notice it chirping. We have a lot of blue jays around and we have some cardinals that nest in our trees!

[@mrspaulsen1717]

There are many people who have called your giant amaranth a love lies bleeding, but in my experience they have bright pink stems, not green. It looks more like green tails to me. My red Hopi amaranth is completely burgundy colored- leaves, stems, flowers; they reseeded themselves with my dill this year. Zone 4 Bismarck ND, We are over 80 today.

[@SydneyDorman]

It was supposed to be coral fountain with coral colored seed heads so, it’s definitely not the variety I ordered. 😂 but not sure what variety it actually is!

[@aprilshomeandgarden]

I love the lime zinnias, they make the purple punch. Are your purple zinnias “California zinnias”? Mine never get that big. Nice job. And I’m thinking about bees and if I could possibly get a hive like yours. My bees are far and few in between in this heat.

[@SydneyDorman]

The purple zinnias are “Benarys giant purple”variety.

[@aprilshomeandgarden]

@@SydneyDorman thank you, I’ll look for them