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Rose

The roses are charming, but very sophisticated and pretentious flowers too. There are some tricks to prolong the rose’s life:

• It would be good, if it’s any possibility, to be conserved in a cold place, even the fridge, but not near the other products, for a few hours, after bought them.

Cut the stem at a very sharp angle under the water and than let the water to flow over the stems for 3 minutes.

Soften the base of the stem into mint oil before put in the vase.

• Add some lemon drops into flower’s water or a little salt.

• Introduce the roses till flower in a tall and full of water vase than leave them in a dark cold place even for 24 hours.

• For bacteria to be destroyed, add a drop of disinfecting substance in flowers water.

• The roses need to stay in tall vases, filled with warm water.

• You have to change the water daily.

Tulip

The tulip’s availability, as a cut flower, is from 8 to 10 days. The tulip doesn’t bear the water privation and the warmth. For a better hydration, you need to cut the white base of the stem under the water and put it in a cold, without draught space, into cold and fresh water. To maintain the water’s freshness and the flower’s natural colors, attach some small branches of Tuia. You can also put a metal coin. To avoid the tulip’s declension, you have to fill the vase with water or to wrap the flower into a paper, because the stem will turn towards the light.

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This is generally possible using the flower nutrition, as liquid or granules, (the flower nutrition’s dissolution has to be made into another vase, not directly into flower vase, in warm water) and, on the other hand, using the chemical solutions to destroy the bacteria that is speeding up the putrefaction process.There are several techniques of keeping the cut flower’s life:

• Cleansing the inferior part of the stem, which remain in water, of leafs, flowers or sprigs, because those are disintegrating and there comes the reek.

• Averting the leafs from the entire stem. This practice is used to ligneous species, like the lilac, of which leafs are exuding and than the flower is not longer hydrated.

• The cut of the stem at a very sharp angle 1 1/2 to 2 inches below the end of the stem that the absorption area would be as large as the flower need to be hydrated. If you want to refresh the flower, cut the stem once more. Is good for the flower to be cut under water, blocking the air to break in.

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