Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Get the Most Out of Your Fresh Flowers


When someone sends flowers to you, it is a very special way of showing they care. Here are a few helpful tips to help you care for the flowers that they have sent. This will ensure that your arrangement has every chance to last as long as possible, continuing to bring joy and beauty to your life. Cut flowers are available in so many places these days: grocery stores, warehouse stores, drug stores, farmers' markets, roadside stands, even discount department stores, not to mention your local florist. The selections are almost endless, from single variety bunches, to colorful, spring bouquets; it's almost overwhelming.

When it comes to great summer flowers, just about anybody can go to the store and buy some that are ready to be displayed in their house, but there's a certain satisfaction that comes from planting and raising your own flowers for the summer season. The most basic values of traditional flower arrangements contains correspondence, harmony, color and balance. If all arrangements are to be completed in the traditional style, then it must include these mentioned principles. Fresh cut flowers add beauty and a sense of welcoming warmth to our homes, whether those flowers are daisies and dandelions picked by your child, flowers you cut from your own garden or those someone you love sent you from the florist.

Whatever the reason, bouquets make the perfect addition to any home or room. The downfall is that they tend to wilt quickly and lose their vibrant colors and stance. The heat of the sun lowers the water content in the stems and the flowers will not last nearly as long. If it has been raining and the flowers are wet, shake them gently to remove the excess water. Too much water will often damage flowers - especially delicately petalled flowers.

There are a number of aspects you need to know in order to make sure you pass the message correctly as well as as impressively as possible. Flowers from your garden will be the freshest, most fragrant options that you will be able to find. But, I know, it's hard to cut down that clump of tulips in your front flowerbed. So plan ahead a bit and work a flower cutting bed into your landscape.
Tips for a basic floral bouquet

.               Fill a vase or container with 6 inches of water. Add the desired greenery and fern. Cut all the other flower stems at varying heights. Place them in the vase in a cascading pattern highlighting the most colorful flowers in the center.

.               Add the rest of the filler plants or flowers at the last. Astilbe, Statice, and Roses make nice fillers.

.               You can rearrange your bouquet every time you change the water. The water should be mixed with a floral food to increase its longevity. Properly cleaned and fed flowers can last for up to two weeks.

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