Harvesting Strawflowers and the FIRST Lisianthus Bloom of 2022! : Flower Hill Farm

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[@FlowerHillFarm]

Hi Flower Friends! It's Nicole from Flower Hill Farm- The first 1,000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: skl.sh/flowerhillfarm07221

[@matthewheeke4377]

Your videos have helped me become a better Gardner. You are a great example of what you can achieve through hard work. Congratulations on the nursery!!

[@marydrew3568]

I just want to say how happy I am for you. You got your Kabota, a hoop house AND A NURSERY with GREENHOUSES!! You work your butt off and I cannot imagine a better person to be blessed in so many perfect ways! 🥰💐

[@karencoley9593]

I love that you sing while you work. 🎶🎶🎶

[@Weeks25]

Id LOVE a mid summer flower tour. I’d love to see everything you are growing while in bloom. Your videos really help me decide what to grow, what it will look like as far as size an blooms an when to harvest the flowers. Your videos have really made such a difference in my gardening. The Lizzys are stunning, u think I’m in love with them!

[@proudmomma7095]

So… seriously cute outtake at the end where you serenade your flowers. LOL. So enjoyable to watch you!

[@suzannehager7036]

I grew straw flowers for first time this year because of you. Wow thank you!!! Love them! Please bring us along for dried flower projects! It’ll keep our hands on the flowers over winter

[@rebeccah8912]

Nicole your voiceover was hilarious and perfect!😅 You have a beautiful voice! 🙂

[@user-vz4sf3qd2z]

Nichole absolutely love your videos May GOD continue Blessing you in all you do Girl

[@sweetgreetings4you]

LOVE the flowers! Congratulations on the nursery. I'm a new sub and have been binge watching to catch up on everything. You've inspired me sooooo much! Thanks for sharing your journey with us. Many blessings!

[@Edu_Kate]

I still have a bouquet of straw flowers my uncle gave me years ago and he's been dead more than ten years. He bought them from a roadside stand. The couple said they cut off the flower head from the stem, then poked a straight section of floral wire (craft stores sell) up its "butt" and as the flower dries it clenches onto the wire. 🤭 Your singing at the end of this video reminds me of Snow White's singing.

[@karalee6522]

I love the open straw flowers! The bright pink and orange contrast so well! I am definitely adding them to my garden next year.

[@sharrmund894]

Thank you Nicole. I just picked my first Lizzie today a full 6 months after planting those teeny tiny seeds and hovering over them for all these months. There is no way I could have done it without your guidance. It has been an enjoyable and rewarding endeavor and I hope to ramp up my numbers next year. Very best wishes on your new adventure. I hope you have lots of parking because you are going to be BUSY beyond your wildest dreams.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

There actually is NOT ANY parking! It's definitely an issue LOL Something we can work on I guess! Thank you so much

[@vivherman2296]

Love those strawflowers. Mine are just sitting there thinking. As is my statice. Sure takes along time for those to bloom for me, anyway. I lost almost all my Lissies to heat and drought in June. Sooo,--90's just fried alot of them . We need rain badly. Weather is getting more wierd every yr. Congrats on that seed to harvest lissie!!!

[@jennysanders3328]

The barn area would be awesome for workshops!

[@daneekaplan4284]

I grew Lisianthus from seed because of you. This is the first time i've grown anything from seed. I thought they would never mature because they were so small when i put them in- way smaller than yours but they are almost blooming so i guess they caught up.

[@cynthiafisher9907]

I just love you, Nicole!

[@care7663]

Omg! You, Candace, & Tonya @ Freshcutky have some of the most beautiful lissi blooms I've ever seen! I could look at them all day! I love the sound of the strawflowers!

[@altheab.8907]

Love those Lizzie’s, Nicole. Such a long wait….but so worth it. So excited about the nursery. It’s going to be wonderful! 😊💖

[@onetwocue]

Iowa here. My lisianthus are on their fourth flush. And long stems. I'm really amazed. I have blue rim, pink rim, green, rose and purple ones. I got my lisianthus from a cell pack from an Amish greenhouse. I paid 1.50 for a cell pack. I bought them all along with rocket snaps.

[@ranidhillon3251]

Lol😃 Your vlogs are always fun to watch 👌

[@rosee941]

Always entertaining... I learn something new, I marvel at flower beauty and get a great laugh... Thanks for sharing!

[@carriecraiger3929]

I love my straw flowers. I grow “apricot” and they look like the sunset.

[@silencedflower8441]

I’m so excited!!😆 ...for you! 😄 Keep on a’growin’! 😘❣️💐🙏🏻

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Thank you so much!!

[@silencedflower8441]

💐💗🙏🏻

[@majoyap3403]

Love the straw flowers. I never thought that straw flowers have a white variety. I always thought that it's only red, orange, yellow and a mixture of it, because that's what I usually see in the market. Love the Lisianthus.. It's so romantic looking. ❤️

[@FlowerHillFarm]

It's called Vintage White! (the strawflower) from Johnnys

[@gardengirl7446]

Voice over works just fine! Thanks for the lesson!

[@radmilamiljanic5977]

Happy, happy days, lizzies are coming😍

[@amaiaamaiaa]

I read the title as harvesting strawberries, and then got to the end of the video and said !!where are the strawberries!! lol 🤦‍♀

[@jeanniehall1440]

Your happiness 😊 is fetching .. Congratulations on the new venture. Exciting, anxious I'm sure at times but it will be so exciting to share with your community of so much to choose from .. possibly many garden decorating items, bird baths, stepping stones, decorative pots, so so much. Our local garden sales place early season time may has classes for certain plants like rose care. Then they offered a "kids" fun class to get them interested into the garden., like maybe tomatoes, flowers, etc .. If I was 40 years younger, I would of loved to do what you're doing now .. I'm just retiring after 48 years in sales at the end of this month. Self employed .. nothing like owning your owned business. Live in Michigan, zone 6, newly married 8 Mos and will discover a new garden zone Reno .. will be back/forth .. life will be interesting.. Congratulations again dearheart .. You deserve this fun new venture for you and yours ..

[@botanicaltreasures2408]

Good tip about checking the underside of flowerhead for bees .Two days ago at noon, I was stung when dead heading a zinnia, because I didn’t think about the fact a bee might be underneath the flowerhead sheltering from the heat.🌸🐝

[@jenniferadamek2303]

Same for me with dead heading peonies this summer. Sting me on my thumb knuckle, couple times, and bicep! Ouch!

[@botanicaltreasures2408]

@@jenniferadamek2303 My sympathy!

[@TheGardeningMe]

That Lisianthus is gorgeous! Strawflowers are a favourite around here, especially for my daughter. We also grew the double tall variety this year and a bunch is already hanging in the laundry room (which we love to see as we walk by it 🙂)

[@kuchdilsecreationsbysonali9605]

Soooooo very happy to see u in the field harvesting flowers and waiting desperately for bouquets making videos from India, so very happy for you but wonder we’ll see less of u in ur farm and ur bouquets bar videos, ur spirit is sooooo uplifting 🤗🤗

[@FlowerHillFarm]

I am sure it will be a combination of it all!

[@LongislandnativeSanctuary]

Love you!❤

[@lyla.aisle.of.blooms]

This voiceover reminds me of those makeup tutorials where the boyfriend/husband does the voiceover. So now I demand a Brad Pitt does the video voiceover video. Please and thank you. Also a Grandpa does the voiceover video.

[@michelleadams1210]

You're so cute!! 😊 And informative

[@HHeirloomIA]

Woman, you are crazy but growing on me. Thanks for all the tips!

[@kathyshuman1104]

love your hair color .

[@1958constance]

The used car salesman comment was hilarious

[@kuchdilsecreationsbysonali9605]

Love love love ur singing,blues

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Thank you LOL I like to have fun with it

[@willowingchintz]

Besides being a wonderful flower farmer, you have a beautiful singing voice!

[@emilypalmer1244]

you brighten my day and inspire me ❤

[@judymckerrow6720]

Your so silly, love it 🌸💚🙃

[@ericjorgensen8028]

James Blunt would be happy with that I believe....

[@ngpierce]

This is a question on Sunflower Steve’s sunflowers. Are the seeds from his sunflowers sterile or can they be used for planting for more flowers?

[@txhobtolwmtiam3389]

Nyobzoo ogzooheej 👍

[@bathblooms]

Thanks, I joined skillshare!

[@veracaland312]

I never heard about the wiggle test for strawflowers. To bad I already cut most of them. On the other hand, I hang them all to dry.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

You should be alright then!

[@silencedflower8441]

I haven’t got strawflowers to grow yet., tried two years now... any tips for next year’s attempt? 😬😘

[@lisacastro9078]

Hi Nicole, did you say your friend Gina site is called Backyard Blooms?

[@txhobtolwmtiam3389]

Zookawmle thiajos 👍

[@terrimcclain-dentz1495]

Hi, will the strawflowers grow more blooms or are they like sunflowers, 1 and done?

[@FlowerHillFarm]

They have a TON of side shoots growing. I've cut as many as 9 from one plant so far.

[@carolyncavecche3793]

My problem is my strawflowers are not passing the wiggle test even when completely open and they are going in full sun. Any ideas??

[@rachelsamuels2030]

Our are doing that as well… wondering if the soil is too damp, does it affect the stiffening of the stems? Ours are in a hoop house.

[@Talula72]

I started Lisianthus from seeds for the first time (in January- zone 5b) and they are SO slow! Mine are still just an inch or 2 tall. I'm losing hope of getting blooms

[@FlowerHillFarm]

Oh wow! I hope they catch up!

[@carolhendley760]

Any idea why my dondo ageratum isn’t blooming? It’s about 20 “ tall and in full sun. I may have yo just use it as foliage filler.

[@care7663]

Maybe it needs more phosphorus?

[@carolhendley760]

@@care7663 thx!

[@atefbasha1809]

Hi!!!Nicole and how are you soon...🙌✌💏💏🇺🇸🇺🇸🌷🐏🐃🌼🦄🍎🐂🍅

[@Car-jy8pw]

LOL… I think I like the voiceover better than when your microphone works.

[@FlowerHillFarm]

LOL :)

[@Fabdanc]

Are strawflowers easy to direct seed?

[@FlowerHillFarm]

I've never tried!

[@RC-mc6rc]

How can we help you get more viewers? More viewers means more money for more projects on the new nursery!

[@ayina111]

Your voiceover is hilarious. I can't stop laughing. Oh and I love straw flowers!

[@atefbasha1809]

And me Soon 🌼🌷🌷💏💏💏🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@danicyrus6464]

NOOOOOO Nicoleee!!! DONT put dries flowers herbs or fruit in your soaps !!! They WILL MOLD !

[@FlowerHillFarm]

It's decorative on top, it's meant to wash off after first few uses!

[@annelefevre9457]

Too much yakking about Skilshare!