Bouquet Care
You’ve received BEAUTIFUL flowers from Gardenside Blooms or you’ve just harvested your own favorite flowers from your garden. How do you take care of them once they are in your home? Here is a list of things that will help you preserve the flowers you have worked hard to grow.
Give your vase a good scrub with soap and hot water or diluted bleach (ratio of 1 part bleach to 10 parts water) to make sure no bacteria is hanging out to kill their buzz.
Fill your vase three-quarters of the way full and dissolve contents of the enclosed flower food packet following the directions on the packet.
Recut the bottom of each stem removing at least 1/2” to your desired height. I love to stagger the height of our stems to give our arrangements a more casual and full look. So cut some a little shorter and leave some a little longer.
The flowers will take up a lot of water in the first couple of days. Check the water level daily and add water as needed. Replace water every 2–3 days.
Remove older flowers as they fade.
Keep your flowers away from direct sun, drafts, and sources of heat and they’ll last longer. Or throw caution to the wind and leave them where you love them!
If you follow all of these directions you will enjoy happy blooms for 5-7 days.
HINT: Some flowers don’t “play nice” with each other. For example, daffodils release a sap when cut. If you cut your daffodils and then place them in water with other flowers, this will dramatically shorten their vase life. Instead, cut the daffodils, place them in their own vase for 3 hours and then you can put them in with other flowers. But you cannot cut the stems again.
