To give and receive flowers extremely pleasantly. There is belief that the bouquet presented by the person having sincere feelings will stay longer than the others. But one love for extension of life of bouquet is obviously not enough. To admire it long time, it is necessary to perform daily procedures which honor identical to all flowers. So what actions need to be made?
Instruction
1. At first separate different flowers in bouquet from each other. Unfortunately, the majority of flowers – egoists who do not suffer the neighbourhood. Roses and carnations - the famous antagonists. Also it is impossible to put narcissuses and tulips nearby. Daisies, cornflowers or poppies - with lilies. There are flowers which perniciously influence the others. It is lily of the valley, primroses, sweet pea, mignonette.
2. Then flowers need to be reanimated. While they went from shop to you, have managed to have the severe stress, being separated from water. Besides in cold season the bouquet feels also thermal shock. It is impossible to bring flowers from cold to the warm room at once. After processing put them to the cool place. It is possible even in the fridge.
3. So, remove packing, sort flowers, cut off all leaves and thorns which will be below height of water that it did not rot. Then under flowing water, or having lowered flowers in basin, update cuts the sharp razor. Wood stalks (rose, lilac) it is necessary to split and insert match that the area of absorption has increased. Inject water into hollow stalks (dahlias) the syringe, and close up tip. All plants producing lacteal juice (poppy) need to be dipped tip of stalk into boiled water, or to set fire to it the lighter. If you process thus flowers, then they can be put in bouquet to others as lacteal juice will not make their life a misery any more.
4. The stalk of gerbera, tulip quickly withers therefore it is fixed paper or wire in plastic braid. The long transparent vase test tube on which neck the flower will lean will be alternative option for such flowers.
5. The vase in which there will be bouquet has to be sterile. For this purpose, it is washed with potassium permanganate solution. Water has to be otstoyanny or boiled, but ideally use melt water. The height of water in vase with gerberas, irises or freesias has to be minimum. Most of all love carnation water, phloxes, delphiniums, skabioza, dahlias and narcissuses. Roses or chrysanthemums have enough half of height of water in 10 cm.
6. To flowers it is necessary not only to drink, but also is. For bouquet add complex fertilizer with which you water the house flowers to water. If it is absent, then in 1 liter of water fill 1 tablespoon of sugar. But as sweet water will become nutrient medium and for bacteria, it is necessary to add to it also antiseptics: couple of tablets of activated carbon, silver piece, laundry detergent on knife tip, pair of chips of potassium permanganate. Besides sugar it is necessary to put citric or ascorbic acid in water.
7. Do not forget to update water and cuts daily, and to wash vase with soap and potassium permanganate. Then your bouquet will remain fresh very long.