Tips for Cut Flowers
Montresor
What are the best ways to keep cut flowers alive? Is it true that if you put a penny in the bottom of a vase of water, your flowers will last longer?
Columbus29
I put a little bleach in the water and that seems to preserve them a little longer.
ocean
an aspirin, or a sugar cube for roses, and change the water every day and cut them a little bit .
catwoman708
The penny trick is to get tulips to stand up straight.If you buy flowers, get some of the free packets of floral preservative, keep the flowers cool and the stems in water, wrapped with a wet paper towel, or leave a little water in the plastic sleeve they come wrapped in. (I take a bucket of water with me to the store) As soon as you get them home, snip the ends on a diagonal slant (absorbs more water), remove any foliage below the water line (or it will muck up the water & start bacteria growth), and place them in the water with lots of floral preservative. Keep the water level up, and completely replace the water with fresh every 3 days, add more preservative, and re-snip the ends of the flowers. Tulips, irises, & roses just don't last long (a few days?). Any mums, daisies, pompoms, alstromerias (a lily variety), and "filler" flowers such as baby's breath, statice, limoneum all last really well, and if kept "freshened up" will last a week, sometimes two. *Always use special floral shears (regular scissors sometimes crush the stems flat hampering water absorption). If the stems do get crushed, sometimes you can squeeze them back open.*DON'T use the floral preservative in cut flowers from bulbs, like tulips and iris.*If you cut flowers from your yard, do it in the morning, not the heat of the day.*If you use Oasis (wet-foam) put floral preservative in the water, soak it thoroughly, and add more water (with preservative in it) every day, or keep a little water standing in the bottom of the container. If you pull a stem out of the foam, don't stick it back in the same hole unless you go deeper. It creates air pockets & wilt the flower.
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