How to store roses in vase

How to store roses in vase

If in the house the bouquet of roses appears, each woman wants that it as long as possible pleased with freshness and beauty. But, unfortunately, too often because of the wrong leaving of rose very quickly fade and lose attractiveness. Remember with what regret you had to send the bouquet of roses bought only 3-5 days ago to garbage can! And this trouble can be avoided easily, following several simple recommendations about care for roses in vase.

It is required to you

  • - bucket with cool water
  • - the vase with water, water temperature is 20-22 degrees
  • - tablet of aspirin or pinch of citric acid or drill in glycerin
  • - 1 St spoon of granulated sugar or floristic preservative
  • - sharp knife or scissors

Instruction

1. So, if in your house there was bouquet of roses, begin with the fact that at several o'clock place it in bucket with cool water. Flowers at the same time arrange so that water did not get on lobes and buds, otherwise they can begin to decay. This procedure is intended to saturate roses with moisture which they have lost in the course of storage and transportation before sale.

2. Then prepare water for vase in which there will be bouquet. It is the best of all to use ordinary water from under the crane, previously having boiled it or having let it stand. Optimum water temperature for bouquet of roses 20-22 degrees are considered. Then carry out the procedure of disinfecting of water, for this purpose it is enough to dissolve only in it either aspirin tablet, or pinch of citric acid, or it is a little drills in glycerin. Also you can make water of more feeder for roses, having dissolved in it granulated sugar (at the rate of 1 tablespoon on 1 liter of water) or special floristic preservative which can be bought in flower shops.

3. After that place bouquet in vase. But previously do not forget to prepare also flowers. First, tear off the lower leaves and thorns that they have not appeared under water. Secondly, refresh cuts – by means of sharp knife or scissors remove flower tip at an angle. Putting vase on its constant place, do not forget that roses are longer stored in the cool room, far from direct sunshine.

4. That your roses were stored in vase really long, it is necessary to take daily care of bouquet: to change water, to spray stalks and leaves of flowers from spray, to cut tips of stalks. When the bouquet nevertheless has first signs of withering, place roses for the night in bathtub or bucket with cold water (10-12 degrees), watching that buds and lobes remained over its surface. At such leaving simple and available to each woman, roses can be stored in vase up to 30 days, depending on grade and degree of their freshness upon purchase.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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