How to Maintain Cut Flowers

The way of maintaining cut flowers: fresh cut flowers add to the grace of house. We usually place cut flowers in the vases, they are very beautiful, but unfortunately they don’t last longer. Most of them will keep a week, but the life will be shorter in summer. Especially for tulip, it will wither about two days. How to make flowers keep longer? You can visit the online florist http://www.flowersofchina.com/ to get more information.

1) First, cut stem at an angle with a sharp knife to expose more stem and make it absorb more water.

2) Second, cut some stem every day to allow a better water absorption.

3) Remove the excess leaves which will fall below the water line in the vase.

4) Change the water every day. If it is summer, in order to maintain the water temperature, we could place a few pieces of ice in the vase; at the same time, the vase should be filled with full clean water, which not only keeps the water warm, but also increases the weight of the bottom of vase and ensure the stability of the vase.

5) In order to keep the flowers last longer, we could add some beer into the vase or grind two aspirins into powder and add them into the vase, which can keep the flowers last longer.

6) In general, tulips have the shortest life expectancy, and carnations the longest. If you want to buy the beautiful flowers with less money, you have to buy carnations more than tulips. Tulips will wither soon especially in summer.

7) What you should notice is that you should not buy chrysanthemums to decorate your house, because Chrysanthemum is generally used for worship.

8) You can buy a few pieces of silk flowers and mix with fresh flowers together, which make the flowers look more and luxurious. Different silk flowers can match with different fresh flowers and use repeatedly.

Types of flowers

1. How to maintain fresh white orchids? Dry the cut of white orchids with fire, then coat with naphtha. This fresh-keeping effect is better than placing the flowers in the water.

2. The way of maintaining lilies. Remove the stamens of lilies to keep flowers last longer.

3. The way of maintaining rhododendron. Place the rhododendron in the vase which contains cool water, and add a small piece of charcoal to the vase, which can extend the life of cut flowers.

4. The way of maintaining hibiscuses. Place hibiscuses in the water at 60, when the water cools, the petals which withered may recover.  

5. The way of maintaining lotus. Cut down the lotus, plug the cuts with mud, then wrap the cuts with hair, which will keep the lotus last a few days.