The roses are charming, but very sophisticated and pretentious flowers too. There are some tricks to prolong the rose’s life:
· It would be good, if it’s any possibility, to be conserved in a cold place, even the fridge, but not near the other products, for a few hours, after bought them.
Cut the stem at a very sharp angle under the water and than let the water to flow over the stems for 3 minutes.
Soften the base of the stem into mint oil before put in the vase.
· Add some lemon drops into flower’s water or a little salt.
· Introduce the roses till flower in a tall and full of water vase than leave them in a dark cold place even for 24 hours.
· For bacteria to be destroyed, add a drop of disinfecting substance in flowers water.
· The roses need to stay in tall vases, filled with warm water.
· You have to change the water daily.
Tulip
The tulip’s availability, as a cut flower, is from 8 to 10 days. The tulip doesn’t bear the water privation and the warmth. For a better hydration, you need to cut the white base of the stem under the water and put it in a cold, without draught space, into cold and fresh water. To maintain the water’s freshness and the flower’s natural colors, attach some small branches of Tuia. You can also put a metal coin. To avoid the tulip’s declension, you have to fill the vase with water or to wrap the flower into a paper, because the stem will turn towards the light.
Lily
The punks of the lily have their different opening phase, that the flower lives in water more than 1, maybe 2 weeks. For a long availability, you got to avert the full-blown flower’s stamens, before the pollen will spot the petals, fading them. To prolong the lily’s life, add in the water a spoon of white vinegar (it applies to the gladioluses, anemones too).
Chrysanthemum
The chrysanthemum is one of the most resistant cut flower and it will decorate your house for a long time, more than 2 weeks. By hybridization, the chrysanthemum has a several numbers of petals, multiple colors, forms and sizes. For the best hydration, you’ll smash or cut the stem at a very sharp angle, eliminate the base leafs of the stem. A bouquet of chrysanthemum flowers has to be disposed in a large vase, so the flowers will not be crowded. You need to change frequently the water in the vase and powder the flowers with water, because the chrysanthemum loves the humidity.
Orchid
The orchids will decorate your
place for 1 or 2 weeks, maybe more, if you offer them the best conditions. It’s
important for you to know that the orchid, being an exotic flower, prefer a 26
degrees temperature. After gathering, the flowers have to be left in a
cold space (10-15 degrees) for a couple of hours. Than put them in
capacious vases. To refresh the orchids you’ll cut the stem and than
put it in a boiled water,
so the flowers will resist more. Keep them away from the draught,
smoking or hot vapors (this is also a practice for the anthurium cut
flower).
Daffodil
The daffodil cut flowers can resist from 4 to 8 days, if they are carefully attended. Their stems excrete a
viscous
substance which is speeding up the blight process. Therefore you’ll
follow this practice: cut the stem at a very sharp angle 2 inches below
the end, than pass it through the fire or leave it for a while in warm
water, for the pest substance to be eliminated. You can use a
combination of vinegar and salt to clean the daffodil’s vase.
Carnation
The carnation is a very resistant flower and is usually used in the arrangements that have no water supply. Some cultures consider the carnation a funeral flower, maybe for its resistance. It’s important for it to be cut between the stem nodules for the best hydration. The carnations love the fresh water and the sweetmeat, thus put some sugar in the water. You can also add some lemon drops.
Daisy
It’s very alike the chrysanthemum, therefore the
scientific name is Chrysanthemum leucantheum. Daisy is a resistant cut
flower, though it’s fragility. As the best care, cut
the stem till the green part, put it in tall vase, filled just for 3 quarts with water and add a drop of whitening substance.
Anemone
Depend of the type of flower, the anemone will resist between 5 and 8 days, maybe more, if it’s well attended. The stem has to be cut at a sharp angle. This flower prefer the cold water and the cold spaces, that you can get them into the fridge, for 1-2 hours, in a separated compartment, before their placement in water. Just like the anemones, the flowers with a fragile stem (freesia, for example), have to be doused till the flower.
Lily-of-the-valley
This flower will not resist more than 4-5 days since the gather and that so under a good care. You have to put it in fresh and not very cold water as soon as you can.
Crocus
The crocus’s cut flower doesn’t resist much time, just 3-4 days. As a bulb root flower, like the tulip, iris, daffodil etc, it loves the cold water, changed every day. The warm water speeds up the flourish. Is good that the white area from the stem’s base to be cut, because only the green part will absorb the water. You’ll get the crocus in small vases filled at 3 quarter with water.
Iris
Being tall, the iris cut flowers will be disposed in big vases filled a half with water. They love the cold fresh water, so change it ones at 2 days.
Dahlia
The availability of the dahlia is about 6 to 10 days. To maintain fresh the dahlia you have to follow those instructions: introduce the base of the stem in boiled water and keep them there till the water cooling or till the base becomes black; than you’ll cut the boiled side and finally put them into cold water.
Lilac
Though it’s a shrub, lilac is one of the most popular spring flower. To keep them long, you have to avert the leafs and smash the base of the stem, for a better hydration, than introduce it in boiled water. Don’t you forget that the lilac love the warm water and the sunlight. As a trick, you can put a little of sugar in the water.
Peony
The peony will be as fresh as the beginning into the vase from 7 to 10 days. The cut flowers are conserved in a cold place for 24 hours without water and thereafter you’ll cut 1 centimeter from the stem and put them in vases filled of warm water.
Gerbera
The gerberas, as well as the tulip, usually inflect their stem. There are some simple tricks for not to happen: prick the stem just under the flower, to get out the air deterrent the flower hydration or fill of water the empty stem and keep it with the flower turned downward overnight.
Poppy
It’s a not resistant flower. Although it’s a wild flower, the poppy is a fragile one, but loved for its full
of passion color. As well as daffodil, the poppy’s stem excretes a
pernicious substance that has to be eliminated. You could pass the stem
through the fire or leave it in boiled water for 30 seconds, after you
cut the stem 2 inches below the end.
Sunflower
This is a long life flower. As a cut flower, it last
6-12 days, but it’s a wonderful dry flower. There is a trick to avoid
the blight: add in flower’s water 2% of liquid detergent.More at www.flowersgrowing.com
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