Bringing Roses Back to Life (3,6,10 years old)| Flowers Revived | The Floral Preservation Company
Hey, flower people, welcome back. And today's video is going to be complete opposite of what we've been doing before. So we've taken fresh cut flowers. We preserve them quickly, easily, efficiently, had beautiful outcomes. Anybody can do it. And I have confidence in saying that we're going use the same kit, but we're gonna go on the other side of it. Those flowers we shared in the first video that you've had in a box or in a basement. Those dried flowers, 3, 6, 10 years old. We're going to have you drag goes out and we're going to show you step by step how to bring this back to life. And get him in a better forever format. I'm really excited about this video because I've really enjoyed working with these flowers, these dried flowers. And you know what a dried bouquet looks like or a dried flower, hence the one in front of me. They look dead. They look like weeds. And they feel like they just miss the trash can somewhere. So they didn't mean anything to me. And I wanted to do a good job. But when the owner shared her story with me and I've heard from really funny to absolutely tear jerking stories, these flowers that have no life or no meaning are dead. Now come to life and they have a meaning. I happened to have talked to the owner of this flower we're working on today. And you can see it and I can say this is probably the driest flower I have worked with to date.
[00:01:23] And I equate that to a cigar and how you have the ash on the end, that's really long, just about to fall off, but it's still perfectly formed and you touch it and disintegrates. That's just share with me because you can't touch this. This is ridiculously dry, but a chance to talk to the owner and she agreed to share her story with me. So let's check it out and take a look at what she had to say.
[00:01:46] Hey, guys, guys like I was shared earlier. I have a test to have a conversation about the flowers we're working on today. And hopefully I can make it to the house.
[00:01:57] Hey, Donna, thank you for let me have this opportunity to share your story with us. And can you tell me a little bit about that day when you received your flowers?
[00:02:07] I was just at work and I got a surprise from my little brother and for Valentine's Day. And I just really was surprised to get him. And I appreciated in fact, he was thinking about me and I was.
[00:03:21] Welcome back. I know it's video on video. But I hope you enjoyed that story. I know it's my sister in law. So it means a lot to me to get started because they're not easy. We have to rehydrate it. That's the whole idea about reversing the process. And luckily, we have her sister in the bath over here already ready to go. So she's probably been here about a couple hours, probably. And I want to show you how I was able to submerge the flower in water and get the air bubbles out and I'm gonna take her out. Put her on. Yeah, she's I think she's ready. What you want to do? It is get where you can get it pliable. Look, we have some movement in the pedal. That's what you want. We want to get her sister ready to cut this off because you want to keep the greenery as much as you can. Any part of the flower you want to keep because you can always get it in a better preserving state and the presentation is gonna look really well. So I put it here like this guy's I don't know how I figured this out, but you don't want air bubble in it. So you want to merge it completely, get all the air bubbles out right turn her upside down. OK. There we go. Now she's in the bath. We're going to keep her there a couple hours and we're going to bring her back out and do the same thing we're doing with her sister that we're getting ready to put in the microwave. But I want to do is get a preserving paper out. This is extremely wet. So it's kind of just like dampen it in the paper towel just a little bit. We want to try to open it up and take the tweezers, delicate kind if you can. And you can see you can feel the inside. It's got moisture in it. And it's more pliable. So now the petals, you can kind of manipulate them. So let's just work this out here. We got this out. I'd like to fan it out. That's what I want to try to do. Now, we've had that flower that you could not even touch without breaking or shattering on the on the table. Now, look what we're doing. We've opened it up. So this is all about just getting in it. And that the way you want to preserve it, it's already looking good. I mean, I think it looks amazing. Well, at this point you with the rose and everyone has a little bit different format. But the roses are probably the hardest you want to pull this out.