Drying Herbs and Flowers the Old Fashioned Way
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Collect a basket of Herbs and Flowers to air-dry for use in wreaths and dried flower arrangements; it's been done this way for centuries . In his video I will show you what an easy and enjoyable process it is. I've hung a rack full in front of a window for illustrations sake, but it is best to keep your bunches out of direct sunlight whilst drying them. A cool dry room is actually the best location to dry your flowers for retaining their color.
Piano Music is: "Ike La Ladonna" ( Queens Jubilee) by George Winston
I love the magical world you live in.
I feel that way about your wonderful world too; your creative and artistic spirit is a breath of fresh air amid all the garden channels.
It does feel magical.
I love your work. And the bunnies! I have a love for bunnies and Peter Rabbit! Thanks for making my world a little brighter. 💖🌼🌷
beautiful vintage sound music .God is an artist, !! his creation so perfectly suited for us to relax and to bring joy and peace.
That really was pretty music, I think I will use it again.
Yes PLEASE do a video or two or three on making topiary rabbits ,etc... That's something I would love to learn how to do! So excited!
Definitely going to do a Topiary Rabbit!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Hi Jeri, I SO enjoyed this video! I love the music used, I love the rakes and drying pieces…so useful and practical, but so full of character, I love the beauty of all of these drying bouquets hung upside down…but I love you most of all! You are so most lovely, inside and out! You are a beautiful for real true-blue character! You have so many amazing flavours that are SO incredible… And that you love Almighty God is the greatest of everything in your life! ❤
Thank you so much!
Hi Jery.. warm regard from Indonesia. Now watching ur video.. 😊😊beautiful flowers. Love it
So thankful to have discovered your channel. I can’t wait until spring now. My back yard is tiny, but I can still plant more flowers 💐
I like small spaces for garden, it is amazing what you can pack into that area!
Thank you for sharing how you dry flowers and herbs ! I will be on the lookout for an antique drying rack . YES !! Please do videos on what you discover from those amazing garden books .
I love broom corn for making swags.
Oh, this is such a beautiful and inspiring video! Please, please promise to show us how you make your wreaths! You are such an artist. Thank you so much for this loveliness.
Will do! It will be a few wks from now.
The Book Of Herbs is fabulous. I paid regular price for that one. I just loved it.
Got my Hopalong book today. I love it ! Thank you for using your God given talent ! ☺
Very happy you like the book!
I’m watching your videos again. They brighten up this snowy , rainy, and soon cold winter.
I like your style. La donna the Woman... beautiful. Your voice is fit for the design and restful views.
Love old gardening books! Thx for sharing!
I'm catching up on the episodes I haven't seen and just love how with each one I'm learning about antiques, gardening, and how to use items differently. That clothes drier is stunning 😍if I ever see one here in rural South Australia I'm grabbing it. I've never worried about the little caterpillars as now we all seem to encourage insects into our lives. I guess it's a sign of a very healthy ecosystem. Thank you Jeri 💚💚
Good morning Jeri, You have filled my brain with new ideas for my garden this year. I normally plant veggies but nearing 60 yrs old it's getting harder for me to can, so I am thinking of doing something different. You are such an inspiration to me. Thank you for sharing your talents. Blessings!
Wonderful! Nearing 60? No problems, I am way older than that, You can do it!
I know this was an older video but I never seen it ...loved it ...the style ...I am English decent ...love all the colors and of course all the layering that is one thing I learned when I was in design school...Im into vintage and antiques...love the red transfer ware dishes you use....keep the videos coming...also love your animal farm....
Thank you so much, I too have a lot of English blood..
Thanks to you Jeri for showing these books i have now bought The Classic garden, 1001 old time garden tips, Herbs decorations and recipes and the Readers digest 1001 hints and tips from Ebay and Amazon so i am looking forward to reading those in the winter time.
Sue, They are very good books! I've only begun to delve into them, saving them for a cold winters day and a pot of Cinnamon Spice Tea.
@@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow Oh that sounds lovely.
@@sueb7065 time for a tea party.
Hi Jeri, thank you for your wonderful informative video. The books were a steal at that price. Lucky you.
I have just moved interstate where with the recent rain there are so many roadside flowers I have never seen before, including yellow CORREOPSIS.
I have dyed some shirts with them and started hanging flowers and grasses.
I'm excited to learn from you. Your voice is steady, like the video, and I love how you talk about what you're doing. Don't worry about whether the house is painted etc, it looks fine to me!
Nice to have access to free flowers with the Correopsis. The room is painted now....
I had no idea you could dry zinnias. An awesome tip about dying twine. I love your videos they are so wonderful. You are very unique.
I've been learning that you can dry just about any flower , depending on the method you use. I will pass on anything I learn in future videos.
Just found your channel. So glad I did! You're amazing. Thank you.
Thank you and welcome to Hopalong Hollow!
I absolutely love all of you videos
A year later.. and you are inspiring me to try a rake head for a drying hanger. Thanks.
I just filled it up yesterday.
Jeri - you take the cake! I am loving your channel and have been binge watching. Ha! Thank you for sharing a part of your beautiful life with me.
YOu are very welcome!
The Annuals book you bought is one of my favorite gardening books. A fun read.
You are a blessing of joy in my life. I have only the pleasures of life surround me....nothing else is allowed.
Wow Jeri! Those books were a find. I would be snuggling up with some tea just reading those books..
I'm going to savor these books over the winter... but I've already been pouring over the Herb Book, it is so beautiful.
I love the antique takes on the wall. I have a few smaller ones and never thought of using them that way.
I live in a remote part of Australia. I am so grateful for your channel. I feel like I am surrounded by kindred spirits now. THANK YOU.
Indeed you are in the company of Kindred spirits now.
Jeri, I have the Herb book, I love it, I have made the Lemon Loaf, many times with my lemony herbs it is delicious with tea.
I love it everything is so beautiful !!
You should have lots of beautiful dried flowers for the winter months. The color shouldn't fade to badly as long as you can keep them out of direct sunlight. Love those books, great for the long winter evenings. I look forward to seeing your series of videos on topiary. I think it will be very informative. Take care - Marcie
I've hung many more in our front room, which has no direct light at all. I am curious to see the difference in colors in a few weeks.
Hi Jeri. Another beautiful video! Even in the day of RUclips I still love to collect gardening and cook books. There is something that the touch and smell of a book that the internet still doesn't have. I like to stop in Salvation Army and Goodwill Stores to buy the books. Another great resource for used books is the public library. They have book sales about every 3 or 4 months around here. As well as the gardening and cook books for my collection I buy children's books and donate them to the local free health clinics. Most of the children who go to those clinics are a) from single parent homes, b) don't feel well and what can compare to having your mama read a book to you when you are sick and waiting to see the doctor? and c ) the children are encouraged to take the books home as gifts. I have found that children just naturally LOVE books! Some of the ladies at the DAR National Headquarters in D C have started purchasing and donating children's books to the public health clinics.
Randy, As you know, I write and illustrate story books, so I'm all in for providing children with wonderful literature and artwork. I often donate my "used" books to libraries and schools. So nice to hear that the children are welcome to take the books home with them!
It so hot here in south Arkansas, when I go out to move my water hose through my gardens, the only smell at present is a whiff of pine resin from the fallen pine needles that have been baked by the scorching sun. Thanks for sharing your videos, I am always refreshed by them.
Pine smells so good! Although I suppose at this point you'd rather smell an Autumn Breeze...
Thank you for sharing ✌️ 🌻👍🙏
I LOVE the scent of Basil and rosemary also. Thanknyou for this wonderful video
Lovely and inspiring as usual. Blessings.
Thank you Jeri, from the bottom of my heart.
I really like the twine idea, thank you
Hello Jeri! I love this video with so much wonderful and valuable ways to dry flowers and herbs. I love the way you have them drying and it looks so beautiful my friend. I have the Garden Color Guide book and I love it! Take care & enjoy your Sunday!
Hey Peaches, I can hardly wait to spend some time with that book, it will be so great for planning next years garden!
Beautiful video. The flowers hanging on the clothes dryer are stunning!!
Thank you for showing us the beauty of dried flowers and weeds. Autumn into early winter is my favorite time of the year. Right now I'm enjoying the forms of the bare legged trees.
I love your Victorian drying rack.
I agree with you about fall season, it's sublime; and now, in winter, we have the beauty of natures
silhouettes all around.
I love how the flowers & herbs look hanging while drying. Simple but so beautiful! Thank you for showing different inventions like the dryer! Amazing! I never saw anything like that! The books were awesome & you got them so cheap! Your videos are so interesting, enjoyable & educational!💐🤗
I love the drying flowers on the wall, that's really all a person needs to do... forget the wreaths!
If you, or anyone who might see this comment, are interested in a wonderful book, with a large section on growing/gathering/drying/wreathmaking you might like: MAINE FARM a year of country living, by Stanley Joseph and Lynn Karlin (Random House). Stanley was one of the Helen and Scott Nearing students back-in-the-day. He later bought their farm, then married his photographer wife, and the book is full of beautiful photos, stories and community events. The sort of thing that's perfect for a rainy day. Amazon has it, and hopefully a local library too. Thanks again for your great video that sparked some happy memories for me.
Oh gee I cant wait to get the book sounds like just what i like read on cold winter days, thanks again.
@@sharonallen805 you can get a used copy on Amazon.....enjoy!
Lovely Jeri, can't wait to see how they all dry. Thanks for sharing. Love the garden books.
Beautiful
How beautiful. I love those old rakes to dry flowers. And those fan-out rods to hang clothes/flowers is gorgeous. Thank you for sharing.
i would love to see you do a topiary. and all those books , what treasures youve found. thank you for all the drying hints also. i just got a rack so iam excited to start. ! green blessings from tucson.
You will love seeing those bundles hanging in your home!
I love your videos. NEW SUBBIE. I get lost in a wonderful naturalist bliss 💕
Very pretty
so lovely! I can't wait to do this flower and herb drying too. LOVE your herb drying racks! that old close dryer is fantastic. everything looks great. thanks so much
I have that dryer too, I'm gonna use mine for drying also great idea, mine goes the opposite way tho.your dried flowers are very nice in the house. I used to dry them also but stopped dont know y . I'm gonna start again after watching your video.
It was quite lovely having dried flower arrangements all thru the winter..
Beautiful video thank you
LOVE everything about your videos ... the vintagey, cottagey feel of all that you do ... I've made the walking-stick gathering basket, cloches of lamp shade frames covered with chicken wire and I just ordered 3 of those books online ... you are so inspiring ~~
I'd be interested in knowing which books you found. I skimmed through Amazon and saw quite a few of these at really low prices.
I found "Herbs: Gardens, Decorations, and Recipes", "The Classic Garden", and "1,001 Old-Time Garden Tips" all from AbeBooks.com ... They didn't charge shipping either ... I also like finding garden books at Library used book sales ~~ @@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow
It’s so pretty Jeri, I haven’t dried flowers in a long, long time. Your back room looks so nice with your stenciled floor and dried flowers hanging 🥰👍🥰 Take care and God Bless, Chris-Raleigh NC
It was very popular to dry flowers back in the 1980's, then it was forgotten by many. Still, We shall keep on with it!
Beautiful video❤
💖💖💖 Thanks Ma’am...I appreciate you lovely time 🙏
We live in East Tennessee also, I am inspired by your videos to expand our gardens in the spring.
Sabrina, such a great place to live and garden!
Hi Jeri💐 one of my favorite things to do drying some garden beauties. So many great uses. Great wagon wheel drying rack. Off we go to another season. Happy fall🍁
It's so easy to do, and smells so nice!
This is some great info!
The flowers all go really lovely with your decor, l have a wooden rake in our den,l also have a smaller version of your drying rack in my laundry room,l found another old drying rack at a flea market I want to hang it in the kitchen ,l will have another go at drying Thankyou for the video x
Such a beautiful garden. What state or part of the country are you in? Just discovered you in my recommended videos and have been binge watching your videos. Love the picket fence project for the potager garden from last year! That was a lot of hard work.
Digging the post holes and cutting the "pickets" into pointed tops was the most work. I was glad to be able to use those porch spindles at last! We are in zone 7 East Tennessee.
Can you send me an update to this video? I’m in love with flowers. My grandmother just passed last October and since growing up she made me fall in love with how flowers grow and how to care for them. This year I went crazy seed growing with numerous of flowers and herbs and would love to get more a kick start on drying them. Thank you for this amazing video and happy gardening.
Look for "Results from air-drying the Flowers and Herbs/ Working on Needle-felted creatures" Sept 20, 2019
You are a treasure!
Hi Jeri :) One of my most favorite gardening things to do is drying. I love all the beautiful colors you have gathered, the old standby containers and different ways to hang them...just causes me to sink back into my chair and hopefully the video won't stop!. One thing I've learned through many years of testing is the light coming in from the windows. Even dim light will cause fading :( The more dark and airy the more color that stays. But it is impossible not to put them in such a beautiful setting as you have. Save some for the darkest corner or ventilated closet (I don't use a door I use a curtain) so you can have both for room and for projects. Attics are perfect but not everyone has that option. Don't forget to grow hydrangea's for some of the most beautiful dried flowers. Thank you again and I haven't forgotten your rose-of-sharon seeds...just waiting for the right time to cut and mail them to you. I love how you seize every moment of life...
My Hydrangea did not even bloom this year. You are so correct about putting the flowers in a dark room and I have an area under our stairway and in our front room which is more appropriate. They just look so pretty in the window, it was hard to resist.
@@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow I just wanted to add that one of the wonderful reasons I love you and you place is that you don't waste anything. I've seen other videos that destroy beautiful containers and window boxes just to make way for another season. It's all too painful to watch :/ With you...you dry, you make bouquets and other ideas to make the most of our colorful friends. Thank you again Miss Jeri :)
@@housesparrow284, I am frugal that way, can't see anything go to waste. I watched a video where a woman was thinning out huge succulent plants and tossing most of the extras into the trash... I kept thinking, "I'll take that and that and that!" I started all my Rudebekia from an art gallery's garden that was completely pulling it out to start a different garden. It was good I was present that day to relieve them of those plants they had in trash bags!
That Boneset herb is used medicinally. The tea being taken when one has "breakbone" fever!
I love seeing all the books you got! That's what we do at our house when we get back from the used book store, (the same one, but in Chattanooga), or the library sale ! It's show and tell! What an exciting haul! I look forward to your sharing from them as you find some extra special bits!
I've barely touched the surface on most of these books so far. Hope to delve into them sooner rather than later.
So happy I found you, I had to laugh because I have collected over the years many things as you. Of course my daughter's though I was crazy, but it's wonderful to see someone just like me. Thank you so much.
My sons think I'm crazy too, but little do they know they'll have to be the caretakers of all this STUFF when I'm gone.. they'll probably sell it all off of EBAY!
@@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow I made mine promise to keep everything till after the age of 40. Lol. Hoping it will grow on them. Have a blessed, wonderfully creative, healthy and freedom to always express your self throughout your years.
Emelie Tolley books are wonderful.
Agree!
Get them all, you won’t be sorry.
Nice, all those books look very interesting. Books are the best to just sit in a quiet room or outside in the porch and just read read read. Great ideas here. thanks. God Bless you. Bertha in TEXAS
HI Bertha, I am saving these books for just such a time when I can peacefully sit all day to enjoy them.
The drying rack is amazing. How perfect 4 drying plants. I've never dried flowers but am learning a lot from u. I will do this in the future.
The books are lovely and such a bargain too. I love the 2 antique rakes you have used for drying flowers they are perfect for the job.
Hi Sue, I've had those rakes for 25 years
Herbs is the book that started me gardening years ago. I made a circular bed with a bee skep in the middle.
It's a great book, I'm taking it with me on a long flight tomorrow.
This was another wonderful video, thank you. I cannot wait to see what you do with all of your dried flowers and herbs this winter. Your book collection wasimpressive, especially the amount of money you spent. I own the Herb book and you're right, it is wonderful.
It is an Awesome book. I can't believe it came out 34 years ago!
Back when I bought it. :)
Thank you so much for doing these videos I really enjoy them and I love your clothes line that close dryer for in the house the old one
Those clothes dryers are fairly easy to find in antique shops and ebay.
This was a beautiful video, I love to see how you make the most of your lovely old house and grounds. I also enjoy the bits of history you include, I did not know that about Zinnias. Many years ago I harvested lilac blooms and had quite a quantity hung from the rafters in the main room, my hubs had to agree they were beautiful there. A couple days later I walk in from a long days work, and was meet with a horrific sour/rotting type smell...so I learned the hard way that lilacs go through a stage of drying that you DON"T want in your house! We got the place aired out, and the lilacs held their color and were great in wreaths. I agree there is something wonderful about the sight of the bundles hanging.
Didn't know that about the Lilacs, so I guess they would be best to dry in the attic or basement!
@@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow As I recall the stage was just a couple days, then it was gone. But, if possible an out building or garage would be best.
She are amazing! Martha Stewart would be envious.
Thank you Jeri! Would love a Bunny Topiary Tutorial!
I've just discovered your channel, love it!
Great video Jerry. I picked Zinnea's last year, just popped them in a vase and allowed them to dry naturally, and they looked so beautifully antique. My flowers didn't do well this year due to the severe drought, and even though it is raining now and some flowers are just staring to bloom ( they think it's June). our first frost is right around the corner, so I might not get much. Can't wait to see what you do with them...know it will be beautiful. Good haul on those books!
Dale
Even the seeds can be saved from those Zinnias in your vase, after they've past their beauty stage. Sorry for your flower crop this year, I had many failures myself.
Lovely 😊
Oh, I just Love those flowers!, Such a beautiful arrangement and that drying rack, What a find! I dry my herbs by hanging in my pantry except for my rosemary and I freeze that. We love rosemary chicken around here. Good luck with the drying process and Thanks for sharing.
I'm interested in how you freeze the rosemary, as sprigs? You would think a century old house would have a pantry, but ours doesn't... I wish.
@@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow Just going back thru your videos and found your reply. We use it for cooking all winter long. Keeps its fragrance. I just cut the rosemary sprigs from around the bottom of the plant. Then wash and wrap in a paper towel and then in a freezer bag and take out as I need it , I haven't tried to dry them as I think they'd just shed the leaves. I do bring my plant in for the winter and place by a window. Southern light.
@@PeanutButter-hr7uu Thank you! I've got one in the kitchen window at the moment.
Thanks
Linda y bendecida tarde tenga 🙏🙏🙏
I need to gather and dry my herbs for teas.
I gather a few more every day, Lemon Balm is very prolific here and good for tea.
@@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow Yes. I love lemon balm tea.
I used to dry a lot of flowers in England but since living in Florida l havnt done any,incidentally l didn’t know there was a white Beauty berry,l have the hot pinky purple variety ,gorgeous colour ,
Not sure how well these beauty berries will dry, so far they look pretty good.
Jeri Landers the Storybook Gardener l will have a go at drying them Thankyou
Hi Jeri,
I love your antique cloths drying rack. Even though, I know you don't get as much light in this room as you would like - I thought you might put a covering over the window until your flowers and herbs dry to help with them keeping more color.
Very true about flowers fading in the window; I put a large grouping in our living room as well, it gets very low light. I'm experimenting at this point.
I live in a hot country and am wondering if i could dry my herbs on direct sunlight? Your herbs and flowers are amazing by the way😍
I think you would want to take them into a dark room with very little humidity. The heat of the sun will not be good for them
@@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow thankyou
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Thank you for this wonderful video, Jeri. I have one question: How do you prevent aphids and other biological "stowaways" from hitching a ride into your house? I have over 60 plants indoors and so I'm very careful about what I bring indoors. Any guidance would be appreciated!
Hi Jeri , love your video’s ! Just wanted to ask the name of your beautiful dog ! He or she is adorable !!!! Do you have any other dogs or cats ? I’m sure they must love wondering around your beautiful garden !!! 🌺🌻🌸
The 2 Great Pyrenees are Keats and Liam, they are brothers. We have one calico cat named Claudette.
Oh how cute , Keats and Liam ! And Claudette ! You should show them more often ! Thank you for sharing there names . 🐶🐶🐱
I have just found your channel recently and I love it.
I have no idea though, where in the wide world you reside. I would love to know what country and city you are in so as not to become discouraged that my plants don’t look like yours when I’m in a southwestern desert of the United States and you may be in a totally more temperate and misty climate.
I am in a totally different climate in Hot, HUMID, wet, East Tennessee. But you can grow things in the desert that do very poorly for me like Russian Sage, Lavenders, Blue Bonnets. And, you are in Succulent Heaven! And don't forget, that planting in containers can alleviate many problems
I really like the white Berry’s I hope they dry well, would hairspray help them from falling off ? Get some aqua net. Lol
They did pretty well!
Mine were not in the dark (cause I did not know) and they were great !! Very surprised.....
I noticed that the ones dried by a window were just as good as those dried in a darker room.
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Beautiful arrangements....did they retain colour? 🍀
They did pretty well!
I love it! How did your lambs ear turn out? I want to dry my own (:
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May I ask what music you use for your channel?🌱
I use Epidemic Sound.
Do you have a flower press? My husband made one for me. I ought to go dig it out.
Not yet!
@@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow I've been collecting "poor man stained glass ornaments" for my windows. Many of them have pressed flowers between the panes of glass and then rimmed in metal. I have several hanging on my kitchen window and one diamond shaped one on my living room window.
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