Tips To Extend the Life of Your Flower Arrangement

To light up a room, there is nothing better than a bouquet of fresh flowers; however, if there aren’t any roots for sustaining them, they’ll begin to fade and die in the vase itself. Fortunately, there’s a method to make those shining bright flowers last for a long time by taking appropriate care of them. You have to do a few things apart from clipping the stems and tossing them off, and you can trust that they will bring dividends for you.

Although the only way to make your flowers last long is by taking proper care of them, there are different ways of maintaining different flowers. Therefore, the following are a few tips that will help extend your flower arrangement’s life.

 

Not only add water but check the levels daily: 

There is no better way to keep your flowers staying fresh and last longer than adding water to the vase. Keep in mind that the number of flowers in the bouquet/arrangement will increase water quantity (more flowers, more will be the quantity of water). Since a few cut flowers consume more water than others, ensure you’re checking the water level every day, and add as per necessity.

 

It’s fine to use tap water, but filtered water is the better option:

As far as flower arrangement is concerned, there is no problem using tap water, and you won’t feel that feeding them will be necessary. However, using filter water is a better option as it can enhance the longevity of the flowers. If you have a costly plant such as a moth orchid, Phalaenopsis, or a blossoming plant like a Peace Lily, utilizing filter water might be your best bet to ensure your plant’s flowers remain as much fresh as you think possible.

 

Trip the stems-end:

To make your flowers absorb the most water conceivable, cutting the stem’s end is a vital step to take. Trim every day while changing the water in the vase. When you take the flower out of water for a few seconds, the stems evaporates, so you need to re-cut it to take in water.

For cutting it ideally, cut the bottom-most inch of the stems using sharp scissors at a certain angle rather than moving across. In this way, you’ll get more surface area to the tip of the stems, and hence the flower will be able to access the water better. Also, don’t ignore to cut the stems submerged (instead of the noticeable ones) to prevent your flowers from getting air embolism, which can meddle with their water absorption capacity.

 

Use a Flower food packet:

If you get a small packet (usually square-shaped) along with your bouquet, don’t discard it! These are packets of powdered flower food that can help sustain your flowers, thereby extending their longevity. The majority of flower foods have sugar (supplements), an acidifier (to maintain the pH level of water and enable the stems to absorb water), and fade (to lessen microorganisms in the water). Rather than putting everything in the packet at once on the plant, sprinkle it moderately at regular intervals. The flower food packets you get with the bouquet can be added a little while changing water.

 

Or you might make one your own: 

If there is no flower food available with you, just mix water with sugar, lime juice, or lemon, family bleach, and create your own. These fixings will be ideal for your flowers, help keep the stems open, and eliminate microbes that could age them ahead of time.

 

Vase cleaning: 

To make your flowers long last, cleaning is necessary. A perfect vase containing fresh water is ideal for maintaining the freshness of the flowers. Before you put the flowers inside the vase, use water and bleach to disinfect the vase. You can do this with just fresh soap and water, as well; however, you can use bleach for extra cautiousness.

 

Stems should be refreshed:

This might be familiar to you, but how frequently we do it? Trimming your flowers’ stems regularly can assist in extending the longevity of flowers up to three weeks! Your flower stems become obstructed as time passes, so trimming them to just about a forty-five-degree angle will help reopen and create the greatest surface area for them for consuming water and supplements.

 

Think wisely as to where you should place your flowers: 

If flowers get excessively warm, they’ll wither much quicker. Ideally, you should be keeping your arrangement in a cool place, away from direct daylight, radiator vents, and entrance.

An experiment result was published by flower company FTD in a post on the organization’s blog, which demonstrated that keeping the flowers in a freezer (refrigerator) can help keep the flowers alive for a longer time. Therefore, if you can accommodate your flowers in the cooler/fridge, the chilly temperature will assist preserving them.

 

The dead flowers and leaves must be eliminated:

Because a couple of flowers have withered, it, by no ways, means that it is necessary to discard the entire package! Eliminating dead flowers or foliage before they get mixed into the vase water will forestall them disintegrating in the water where they can get rotten. Additionally, eliminate all leaves from the stems beneath the waterline.

 

Do not put too many flowers in the vase while making an arrangement:

While you are preparing an arrangement, do not try to force too many flowers to create a jam inside the vase. Doing so will make the stems rot quickly (since they are overcrowded) and thereby will discharge more bacteria into the water. This is obviously going to be harmful to the flowers.

 

Final Thoughts:

Follow the basics only:

Individuals have tried different things with different approaches to keep flowers fresh longer. Putting certain things, for example, ibuprofen, pennies, vodka, pop, and mouthwash in the vase, can allegedly help flowers last longer. Although a few of these ideas are as per the basics in science (chemistry in particular), numerous experiments reveal (and flower vendors concur) that following these steps will ensure that your flower stays fresh and alive for quite a while.