Flowers – special gift. Giving, choosing bouquet, puts in it the most sincere feelings. And as it is offensive when already next day the bouquet loses freshness and it is forced to go to garbage can.
Flowers – "long-livers"
Most longer there are flowers fresh. That is cut off this morning, it is desirable in your garden. Certainly, it is not always possible to meet this condition. Then upon purchase of flowers it is necessary to pay, first of all, attention to orchids, eusty, gerberas, roses, lilies, chrysanthemums, carnations, gladioluses, freesias, mimosa, lilac, asters, dahlias, narcissuses. The last seven names can stay in vase two weeks. The first seven – it is more than three weeks. But it at good choice and leaving.
How to choose fresh flowers
Choosing flowers, it is necessary to pay attention not only to their beautiful exterior, but also to their health. The semi-dismissed flower buds – it is good, this sign speaks about youth of flower and its high vital potential. But if the semi-revealed bud of rose tends sideways, becomes soft to the touch, means potential in it already is not present. Perhaps, it was cut off absolutely young and even probably early in the morning. But she too long waited for the buyer. The freshness of rose is determined by availability of all lobes on bud. If extreme are torn off, fresh look – only scenery. The stalk has to be firm, green, leaves undamaged and too green. If to pull for leaf, it should not come off easily.
At gerberas, carnations, chrysanthemums, asters and eustoma surely you watch core. It has to be dense, not completely revealed, slightly greenish color, but neither brown, nor yellow shade. Orchids can stand very long as this epiphyte has got used to various severe conditions.
Care for flowers in vase
Lilies will stay longer if at them to tear off stamens. At all flowers before putting them in vase, the ends of stalks are cut off on slanting. Treelike (mimosa, lilac) are split up. The mimosa, lilac, gerberas and roses plunge the cut-off end of stalk for several seconds into boiled water. All thorns, leaves, branches which are on trunk within immersion in water need to be removed, especially it concerns chrysanthemums and asters. In water for flowers is not necessary, following grandmother's recipes, to add sugar and other home-made spices. And here it is obligatory to disinfect tablet of aspirin or boric acid on knife tip. And it is the best of all to buy special means for extension of life of cut flowers which professional florists use. Water has to be cool for all flowers, except lilac, mimosa and orchids. It is better to put lilac and mimosa in hot water. Orchids prefer warm. For all flowers water has to be not from the crane, and otstoyanny. It is necessary to change water to flowers in vase not less than two times a day, and daily to cut stalks.