Using the Microwave to Press Flowers & Project Updates! 🌸🥀🌼 // Garden Answer 

Wow you are never too old to learn something new. At 84, I just found a new project for a gloomy winter month, Thank you ,Laura.

I didn’t know that microwave flower drying was a thing. I always learn something from you. Thank you, Laura!

Love how you whispered when you took the flowers out of the microwave. Like your babies just waking up. You’re the best, Laura.

We used all my enormous nursing school theory textbooks to press a large number of native wildflowers gathered in our pasture and around the county, to make a wildflower book for my daughter's 11th grade biology assignment. She collected, dried and mounted the dried flowers on white linen paper, labeled them with their scientific name and then being the art student that she is, used colored pencils to sketch an illustrated picture of each flower before inserting the pages into a clear document sleeve and putting them in a binder. She got an A.

LOVE the microwave flower press! This will be a great addition to our childcare, as you know tiny humans have a short attention, so to see a finished product so fast will make our future projects much more enjoyable and rewarding! We grow our own flowers so it's a full circle education component.

After discovering your chicken coop video, I then watched two other videos you have created. Thank you for producing quality videos with terrific information we can all use. I grow flowers in the garden; however, I have never dried flowers. I will in 2023. Thanks for the inspiration and information.

Who thinks that microwave flower kits are about to be sold out?!?! Laura...this is AWESOME. Thanks so much for sharing!

You Miss Laura are awe inspiring, God bless you for all you teach us. At my age I am proud to say you are keeping me a sponge who loves coming to class. My husband & I can't wait to share some of the things you've taught us with our children and our little granddaughters. 💗💗

This fall I saved hollyhock seeds. I dried the flowers and then placed a dried petal in each seed packet so I could see the color each plant would be. My friends I shared seeds with appreciated seeing the flower color they can expect when the plants bloom.

I can imagine Benjamin and Samantha in decades to come reminiscing over how their parents grew them an indoor lawn once, such a fun and endearing memory.

We had a speaker at our garden club who taught us to use Viva Paper Towels (they are plain with no ridges) inside of a phone book, topped with heavy books to press. Works great!

I remember I used to microwave flowers with my nanna when I was younger. She’d put the flowers between paper towels or old tea towels, (100% cotton). Then she’d put something heavy on top and they’d come out pretty much the same as yours :) memories xo

Those trays are beautiful. You should pour acrylic or resin over them and make a beautiful tray for your tea parties.

Good morning all. That letuuce looks delicious.

A quick way I used to dry flowers when I wanted to use them right away was to use my regular iron on my ironing board with lightweight fabric and tissue paper. I am glad to learn a new quick way using my microwave! Thank you for showing this technique!

☕️Good morning everyone. Anything green looks so inviting and brings about that longing for springtime here in the Midwest with snow on the way. Thank you, Laura. Enjoy a safe and happy day everyone 🌱🌷

I haven't owned or used a microwave in +5yrs but seeing this makes me wanna run out and get a microwave and that microwave flower press immediately!

Well, I'm a 72 year old man and I found this so interesting and inspiring. I was really watching to get ideas for 2 of my Grand daughters. You are brilliant ! Thank you.

Hi Laura... How fun it would be to watch you build a ❤️ "Fairy Garden Town" ❤️ in your "Bed Of Grass" after your little picnic. Wouldn't the kiddo's just live it? They could move the "Fairy's " and little wheel barrows and so many other movable items, to different areas. Like an outdoor play yard/ play town. Roads, walk ways that leed to so many magical garden patches for the collected fairies to discover???

I kind of chuckled at the "first taste of spring" comment Laura made 😂 The first day of Winter was December 21. It has only been winter for 3 weeks. There is still plenty of winter to go! But I feel you, the recent string of a little bit warmer weather has been really nice recently and has definitely encouraged me to get outside more. Love your videos, the grass box you have going is looking great!

So beautiful and fun! I don't cut my flowers from my garden cause of my double trouble kitties will eat them. Now that I just bought my Microwave Flower Press Kit today I can enjoy making these and give to family and friends. 💜🌺🌸Thanks Laura for sharing and the inspiration!

Wow, I'm very impressed!!! Drying flowers never entered my mind. A lot of fun projects, Laura you are so awesome. Thank you for teaching us this fun project. A lot of 💜 coming from Arizona. Stay safe everyone

Good morning, Laura, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 🌞🇺🇸 We are a bit chilly this morning, 52°F 🌞 Great time to weed and get ready for planting seeds Happy Gardening Everyone 👩‍🌾👍

Thank you Laura. Please post pics of how the dried artichoke blooms turned out. Happy Day

I absolutely love the pressed flower idea to frame and hang on the wall. Easy to change up every season if you wanted. So my husband is looking at me as I watch this and is going to make me a press how do would we have saved in the garage. Every time I watch GA, he looks at me knowing he’s got either a hole to dig, potting soil to pick up, or a craft to assist me with. I love all the ideas thank you so much for your inspiration.

Did anyone else think the back side of the microwaved flowers looked pretty neat too? I loved the green stem as a center! I’ve never found pressed flowers very appealing but this microwave method is fantastic. Thanks for introducing it!

Wow! That is CRAZY. The microwave press was so fast and easy. This changes things for me. I have never worked with dried flowers because they take so long but wow! Laura you show us so many new and beautiful things. It is a BLESSING for all your viewers that we have you in our life. Thank you for all you do! ❤❤❤

Your pressed flowers are so beautiful! Have you ever thought of publishing a Garden Answer Pressed Flower book with photos of layouts? I would definitely buy it! Now that would be a fun project for you if you had the time since you have an artistic eye 🌱🌺🌹🌸🌻

I didn’t know this even existed. How fun! Can’t wait to get one. Who knew you could microwave dry flowers, except Laura of course?

When I saw that beautiful wood tray with all the flowers you just processed , all I could thing about was arranging them in the tray and covering w a thin layer of resin ….. what a beautiful thing to serve drinks/tea with !!!! Thanks for the great ideas!!!

Oh I love this project. Now what I would love is to see what you plan for all the dried flowers. I loved you resin candle. I really want to make some resin jewelry. Thanks so much Laura.

You gave us sunshine on a cloudy day! Fun to learn about microwave drying! TY, Laura!

It’s a long time since I have dried flowers. I have an old square with corners you screw down. Love yours

That little raised bed of grass looks perfect for a mini fairy land - with a few bonsais and winding pathway and Laura’s creativity with creating miniature fairy gardens…that space could be turned into a really cute mini garden.

I like that you appreciate the weather almost no matter what it is. Like seeing the blue sky coming after the rain. ⛅☀

So neat!!! Love the colors. Happy Birthday to Benjamin tomorrow!! Can't believe he is 5!! Where have the years gone?? 🪀🧸🐇🐻🚗🚗🚗🚂🚂🛫🚜🚜🚂🚂🌼🌻🌲🌵🪴🌺🏵🍓🍓🍓🍦🍦🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂😄

Good morning. I just added that micropress to my Amazon wishlist. Thank you. Beautiful flowers. I also love your traditional press, it looks antiqueish (new word?) and I love that.

This is so neat, thanks so much for showing the flower press process & the silica gel 🌼🌸❤️

The dried flowers look so beautiful lining the wood tray. Could you pour thin layer of resin on top and and have a beautiful tray bottom forever? That would be so pretty!

Thanks Laura. You are a treasure. Much love from Trinidad🌺🌻⚘

Never knew that a a microwavable kits where you get it from, what a difference I love how more vibrant they look using this method

I think a dried wreath would be very pretty with those greens and flat and big flowers in a frame. Very sweet project Laura.

Arranging some of the flowers and greens in a nice design on the wooden trays. Then you could cover them with resin/epoxy, would make beautiful serving trays. So many options with dried flowers. And definitely a fun project on a gloomy day!

Wow, such a fun indoor activity! The bright colors are sooo refreshing and invigorating! Can't wait to see what you do with these delicate beauties, Laura! Linda

Oh. Now I realise why my Larkspur seeds haven't popped up anywhere. Living in the hottest, driest part of the world, except for my garden x 💜💚💜🙏😇🇦🇺💜💚💜🌱🌼🌼🌼🕊️🕊️🕊️

Laura that wooden tray would look spectacular with your trays base white washed then layer out your dried flowers then topped with resin! ❣️😉👏

Wow! Microwave drying - who knew? I might have to get one. I hope you take us through what you are doing with the dried flowers. 😊

Good morning all have a safe and blessed day 🥰

Please remember to enjoy your life too :) If RU-vid isn’t your full time job you don’t have to feel guilty about not updating ❤ keep doing your best! You’re awesome

Wow Laura……. This is so cool! I always learn something new from watching your channel, and have learned so much throughout the years watching! I for one cannot wait for the update and see what you might do with all those beautiful dried flowers/leaves. MAYBE a beautiful spring wreath? I don’t remember if you did a video on the salt dough ornaments,? but would love to see one? I wonder how poinsettia flowers 🌺 and leaves would look dried? So many options! As far as remembering to do a update, maybe you can keep a journal of the projects that you do somewhere where you can look at it everyday and check them off as you update? Thank you for sharing, I really enjoyed this video! 😊

I love microwave drying, but I didn't know there was a microwave press on the market! Awesome 👍 🌿 Great video as always!

Laura your microwave flower drying press Is amazing looks like so much fun to do as a winter project thanks for sharing that your such a fun and awesome person love your videos

Laura's property looks great even a dreary day! 🙂

Great start to the morning. I had not seen the microwave press and I love the way it worked. Thank you for the inspiration

Laura, such a charming project! Looking forward to seeing what you do with those flowers in the future.

Laura, Easter will be here before we know it. Perhaps you can do something creative with the grass area then for Easter. Your children would love that!

In the 70’s I embedded pressed flowers between two sheets of clear glass centered in my stained glass window hangings. Bridal bouquet keepsakes . Better hung on an interior wall than sun fading window exposure . Also , used in Preschool projects decorating glass candle votives and white glue . Fun !!!Fun !!!Fun!!!

Love these ideas. I will have to go back and see some of those videos. I can't wait to try this.

Absolutely gorgeous ❤❤❤ You are absolutely amazing

The second tray, the way the flowers are arranged, looks like a spring meadow.

Good morning! 🌻🐝

Just waiting to see the update of Laura flinging open that drawer with the pressed flowers and finding out they go everywhere 😂

Pretty , you have a lot of patience. Love how the projects turned out previously.

Good morning Laura! This is one of the myraid of ways that I love Garden Answer. You are always showing me things I wasn't aware of. I think this would be a great supervised project for a children's art class. On it! Mother's Day is around the corner! Hugs from N.C..❤️ P.S. Happy early Birthday to Benjamin!🎂🎊🎈

I love to press flowers with a bunch of books that I have. Then I lay them in two pieces of plexiglass, like the one you have in the chicken coop, one on the top and the other in the bottom so the flowers look like they’re floating. It looks gorgeous, you should try it

Hi Laura, interesting , I always enjoy your videos with my morning coffee. Thanks

The pressed flowers turned out beautifully! They didn't even look real! I've not heard of the Microwave flower press. Something to look in to! Thank you for sharing with us!

Wow! Next thing i go shopping for! Microwave flower press! Flowers turn out beautifully!! Thank u for introducing new and fun projects to do, especially in winter!! 👍🥳🥶☔️🎉🌼🌸🌺💕

Thinking about trying the microwave but with 2 close fitting glass pie plates and flannel fabric. I have a stack of old phone books with flowers in them from years ago, still look good!

The microwaved dried flowers are beautiful, so fast and so easy! I can't wait to share this with my garden club! Thank you, Laura, for another inspiring video.

Wow! I did not expect them to look like that! That was very calming and satisfying to watch, especially with the calming music.

💚 💜 Hey Lady, I hope you get to enjoy the sky as long as you can today!! It's 50° here today I'll be outside that's forsure.Thanks Laura!!

Laura, you never disappoint. Always coming up with great projects for us.! Love this! Thank you.

Good morning everyone. I was thinking about getting more silica gel yesterday but now I want the microwave press.

Living in Ohio we had -8 to -22 before Christmas After the new year it was really close to 70 degrees and all my spring bulbs are about 4 inches tall Typically February will be a beast

This was so fun to watch! Excited to see what you will create with them. I was a big time drier of flowers in the 1970's using silicone or pressing in thick, weighted down books. The anticipation of their outcome + how they turned out was like opening presents. Well, they were. Presents from nature! Thanks as always for sharing! 🌸🌼

A new project for me! Drying my beautiful flowers! Thanks!😊

wonderful seeing all that lovely colours, i can't wait to see what you make with all the lovely flowers. x

Beautiful, Laura. Thanks for the winter drolls beauty

I've been eyeing that microwaveable flower press for the longest time now, but that's just wayyyy too expensive for me to try as a fun craft thing! 😃

Can’t wait to see what projects you come up with🙌

How fun! I can't wait to see what you do with all those beautiful flowers! Thank you for sharing!!!

Great way to start the morning watching this!❤

So cheerful on a cold Winter day!

Beautiful! Loved this video. Thank you for doing this. Can't wait to see the projects you'll do with the flowers.💕

Wow! Those flowers are so beautiful! I need to dry flowers too. 🌸

Hi Laura, 🐔 🌱🥬 Thank you for the update on the chicken fodder, lettuce and lawn. It’s encouraging to see them all come together successfully so far. 🌸🌹 I did not consider flower pressing until I saw all your lovely past projects and the microwave option. I have been converted. 👏 Even if you forget to update us, I wouldn’t mind, as the content is always interesting and enjoyable to watch.

😘Hi Laura, I love you videos. They are so informative and helpful for me. I love Russel’s photo bombs. Have you thought of putting a heated cat house in the greenhouse for your kitties? I put a heated cat house outside for a kitty that was abandoned by a neighbor when they moved away. So I try to keep the kitty well fed, warm and safe. 😻

They look so beautiful. I can't wait to see what you do with all those pressed flowers.

They turned out so lovely! Thank you so much for the information, Laura.

Loved this video, I need to get one of those. This has given me so many ideas, thank you Laura... Would love more videos like this please.

Love this can't wait for your project using the flowers!

It's so pretty to see the bright colors 😊😊🏵💮🌸🌿 can't wait to see what project you use then in.

Love the microwave option for drying flowers. I attempted to dry flowers from my mom's funeral with the conventional dryer you have there and they didn't turn out at all. I was heart broken. But, this microwave process looks great. I'd think, if the thicker ones were flat, but not completely dry, you could then put them in the silica sand to finish getting the moisture out. Anyway, loved seeing the comparisons🌸🌼🌺🏵

I have used the microwave press for past 10 years- Amazon price is so high. It is so much fun to make these projects with kids. A great project. We make book marks with decoupage for teachers

Another great Garden Answer video! 🎉

I’ve always been skeptical about the microwave drying, but wow! I live in a really humid climate so it’s a balancing act trying to dry flowers before they mold in my traditional press. This micro press could solve the issue! 💜 Thanks for sharing.

You are amazing, Laura!!

I gave up trying to dry flowers with heavy books because the colors always seemed faded. Thanks for sharing the microwave kit-I am definitely going to give it a try. I look forward to the projects that you will do with the flowers you pressed. And your little lawn is turning so lush and green I’m sure the kids are waiting for the time they can have their picnics.

Well now I think I am going to start a new hobby. Thank you Laura for all the info. God Bless.