Make Flowers Last Longer – Video how to look after fresh flowers
Look after fresh flowers – Video and Text
Encouraged by the great feed back from our feature about the meaning of flowers we have transcribed the following video – how to look after fresh flowers and hope that it will help you to keep any flowers you buy or are given in tip top condition and help your flowers to last longer.
Flowers are one of the best decorating materials but they also happen to be one of the hardest to take care of especially if you have no common sense like me so today I’m here to learn how to take care of your fresh cut flowers and keep them looking as good for as long as possible.
When I bring home fresh flowers or have flowers online delivered they always seem to die – I’m sure I’m doing something wrong but I don’t know what it is. What do you need to do to care for fresh flowers? Watch this video and learn how to look after fresh flowers.
When you get them home you should have a vase ready with some luke warm water luke warm helps absorb into the stems faster – not too hot or too cold.
Make fresh flowers last longer
Food – flowers come with floral preservative – go ahead and mix that into the water
Does Sprite work? Yes Sprite will work if you don’t have floral preservative
I’ve also heard using copper coins, bleach – crazy things – do they work?
Bleach will work – just a tiny frop though.
Floral food is the best way to go but bleach is an option if not and sprite if all else not possible.
When water and preservative mixed take sharp knife and make a fresh cut of each stem – cut the flower stem at a slant.
Do you have to make the cut under running water?
Years ago you used to do it that way but its been proven that its unnecessary – cutting flowers underwater prevented air bubbles going into the stem so the absorption of water by the flower is uninterrupted but by having the vase of water ready you can make the cut and immediately put the flower into the water.
Location – where should I keep my fresh flowers?
After you cut and placed the flowers in a vase and arranged them is there anywhere you should put them? Like a drip I put flowers in the sun because plants need sun yes?.
Putting flowers in the sun is not recommended (rolls eyes) – it is the wrong place to put fresh cut flowers.
A little bit of light would be good but direct sunlight would heat up the flower arrangement and kill it faster – may be place flowers on a table away from a window
Not by a tv where its going to get a lot of heat or on top of a refrigerator or an air conditioning which will freeze it – average no extremes
So once in the right place what else should you do – just leave it?
Change water periodically – infact every day and add fresh preservative – that way the fresh water won’t have any bacteria which shortens the life of the flowers. As well as fresh water every day it is good to cut the stems every day too.
Make the fresh cut just a little way up and quickly return the stem to the water
Don’t mix daffodils with other flowers – they have a sap that affects othe flowers badly.
Other things to keep flowers fresh and last longer
Foliage -leave on as many leaves as possible but strip off foliage that will be in the water where it will begin to decay
Follow these tips and you will have a beautiful bouquet of flowers that will last a long time and look great.
I usualy just put them in the water and let them be. Sometimes I use this weird little plastic thingy with water you put on flowers when transporting them. But never heard most of the stuff you said in your video. Good job.
I’m really bad taking care flowers but I love them so this is very useful for me, thank you! jsibaja@bingo.com
hi there, ive been in the flower industry for 15yrs, and all these tips are good, however one small point i should like to add is ‘clean vases’ not all vases are glass, and not used frequently either. for maximum life make sure you sterilise your vases prior to use with hottish water and a good scrub will help prolong your flowers life, happy blooming!! samdonaghy@btinternet.com
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more articles from you in the future.
Regards,
Leif
I’m not so fond of taking flowers but i know some tips of how to take care of it. Flowers symbolized beauty on the surroundings that sometimes make you feel relaxed especially if you have problems.
I really love flowers. What you have posted is very informative. I only learned it from your blog that Sprite is good in preserving flowers. This is very useful for me for I own a flower shop. Hope to read more of your flower related blogs, soon.
Regards,
Keziah
I’m not fond of flowers but I know some tips on how to care with it in order to stay fresh. As what i have learned from others, flowers must be treated like human also ‘coz they are also living things. They should be cared and treated well so they will bloom well and will give you extra beauty to your surroundings.
I need those information you posted. I have a small garden in my house where I plant ornamental. I’m used of seeing flowers planted in the soil and not in vases. Even inside my house I have ornamental plants to add life in my little room. But certainly with the basic tips you provided about preserving fresh cut flowers, I will try my very best to start buying fresh cuts for my living room. I love green but it would be more exciting if I add some colors, right?
Any tips on keeping plants alive while parents are on vacation? I don´t want to be popping over there very 3 days to water them. It´s summer too so I think they´re going to die. Any advice would be really apprecaited or even if anyone knows where I can find out about this (reliable source).
I just moved to a new house and you have inspired me to get some pink flowers for the garden.. thanks for the tips and I hope to be able to take good care of them with those tips. I love pink and it would be great to be able to decorate my garden with lots of pink flowers!
Thank you for your tips. I enjoy planting flowers, but I always find my flowers can last only a short time, I’m so sad. I’ll take your suggestions into consideration!
I know one effective way is to put certain suger in water where flowers in then they can keep longer time.
Very timely for this time of year where flowers tend to “die” because of heat. At least I know now how to take care of fresh flowers even for just a while.
Fresh flowers make such a difference with the miserable weather we’re having right now. At least we can buy them and they keep your spirits up!
i love flowers and love taking care of them and personaly to maintain my flowers live as long as possible, When i first put the flowers into a vase
1 i cut the steams at a 45 angle
2 i use warm warter
3 i add a little household bleach – plain
4 i make sure they are not in direct sunlight /draughs .
and that is it .