How to keep flowers fresh for a long time

Colorful vases are indispensable in the house on holidays and New Year. However, if you don't know how to arrange them, the flowers will not be fresh and quickly wither. To keep flowers beautiful and fresh for a long time, please refer to the following ideas.

How to keep flowers fresh for a long time

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Choose fresh flowers

First of all, you have to choose fresh flowers to buy, with roses, you need to choose to buy flowers that do not bloom. If you buy a whole flower, you should remove the flowers that show signs of wilting from the flower because just 1 wilted flower can affect the surrounding flowers. Don't buy flowers stuck in ice or in the fridge.

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Wash the vase before arranging flowers

Before placing the flowers in the vase, wash the vase thoroughly, if you wash it with soap, remember to rinse it off completely because it will change the pH of the water and cause the flowers to spoil quickly.

3

Use clean tools to prune flowers

Use clean tools to prune flowers, moldy things will quickly fade flowers.

When cutting branches for decoration, you should dip them in water, use scissors to cut, when cutting, use very sharp scissors so as not to widen the cuts on the flower tree. It is necessary to cut off all the leaves of the flower branches that are plugged into the water bottle and regularly cut the end of the next stem to avoid the leaves coming into contact with water and causing rotting. 

Use a small hammer to slightly crush the wood of some flowers with large, hard branches such as hydrangeas, lilacs. to make them easier to absorb water.

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Soak flowers before planting

Bulbs like daffodils do better in cold water. Do not confuse daffodils with other flowers because this type of flower will secrete resin and stick to the stems of other flowers. If you intend to combine daffodils with certain flowers, soak them in water in a separate jar before putting them together.

If you want flowers to bloom quickly to display on holidays and Tet, you just need to soak the base of the flower branch in warm water for a few minutes. 

Withered flowers, especially roses, can be refreshed by soaking in cold water for several hours.

5

Change water for flowers every day

Change perfume every day in the early morning and evening, in the evening you should bring it out to the yard so that the flowers can catch the morning dew.

1 liter of vase water can mix 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, 1 tablespoon of sugar, half a teaspoon of bleach. You can also use Listerine mouthwash mixed with flower arrangement at the rate of 60g Listerine/5 liters of water.

Some experts also said that crushing 1 vitamin B1 tablet mixed with flower arrangement will help flowers stay fresh longer.

If you want to keep the flowers in their original shape, not spreading and falling off the petals, vitamin can use hairspray, hold the spray bottle about 30cm away from the flower and spray upwards.

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Stay away from electrical appliances

To keep flowers fresh and keep longer, remember to keep them far away from TVs, electrical appliances, hot or cold objects. You should also avoid placing flowers in direct sunlight, where there is a lot of wind or steam. Hot and cold.

Isabella Humphrey

Update 08 May 2023