Flower drying tips

12/03/08

Whether cut from your garden or brought to you as a lovely bouquet, you want the flower arrangements you display to look fresh and beautiful as long as possible. Cut flowers can keep up this appearance for several days rather than just a day or two. All they need is a little extra effort to help them last a little longer. The following tips will help you keep those fragrant blooms around a little longer.

Before placing flowers in a vase, cut them with sharp scissors or shears under running, lukewarm water. This helps to hydrate more of the flower. Cut the stems at an angle for maximum benefit.

Strip the stems of any foliage that might go below the water line in the vase. Plucking away all the leaves along the stem of the flower will give your arrangement more room. Plus, any leaves in the vase water can cause a mucky build-up.

Pour out the old water and add fresh water at least every couple of days. You may also want to re-cut the stems to infuse the flowers with fresh water.

If your flowers came from the florist with one of those little packets of flower food, add it to your vase water before putting the flowers in to give them a healthy boost. For your homegrown arrangements, similar products can be found at your local gardening store.

When readying the flowers and container for arranging, you can keep flowers wrapped loosely in a damp paper towels or newspapers so that the blooms don’t go limp before you can get them all arranged.

If you follow these few helpful hints, you will help your flower arrangements share their beauty for days longer than you thought possible. So give your flowers a little help and then sit back and smell the roses, or tulips, or lilies.

 

Marvin Flowers (Point Pleasant Register)
Marvin L. Flowers, 52, of Letart died Dec. 2, 2008 at Holzer Medical Center in Gallipolis, Ohio. He was a machinist at the Imperial Electric Co., a member of Letart Guiding Star Advent Christian Church, attended Morning Star Church of Point Pleasant, IBEW Local No. 1587.

Flowers Foods maintains outlook for 2008 and 2009 (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Bakery goods company Flowers Foods Inc. on Tuesday maintained its guidance for 2008 and 2009, saying its business continues to be strong despite the slump in the economy.

Ray Flowers: Plumbing the depths of production (Sports Illustrated)
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US: Flowers boss upbeat on prospects (Just Food)
Flowers Foods boss George Deese has insisted the US baker remains "strong" despite the economic downturn as the company reaffirmed its sales and earnings forecasts for 2008 and 2009.

1-800-FLOWERS.COM(R) Celebrates National Cookie Day, Thursday, December 4th (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Did you know there was a day set aside to honor your favorite cookie? This year, National Cookie Day is December 4, 2008 and 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. , the world's largest florist and gift shop, is celebrating National Cookie Day by taking a look at the history of the cookie!

Flowers Foods Reiterates 2008, 2009 Outlook (Fox News)
Flowers Foods Reiterates 2008, 2009 Outlook

Flowers Foods Hosts Analyst Day in New York; Reaffirms Guidance for 2008 and 2009 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
At an event hosted in New York today for financial analysts and broadcast live over the Internet, executives of Flowers Foods provided insight into the company's core strategies and reiterated previously issued guidance for 2008 and 2009.

Flowers for the Taj (New York Times)
The author?s grandfather bejeweled the rooms of the Taj Mahal hotel with flowers for years. The last thing he would have wanted would be to use them to decorate the dead.

Flowers raise funds for choir students (Lake County Journals)
GURNEE - Lake County florists pulled out all the stops in this year’s Choir Booster Holiday Flower Show on Oct. 30. During the event, local florists put together flower arrangements to make money for the Warren Township High School choirs.

Wreaths, flowers laid at crash site (Newstalk ZB via Yahoo!Xtra News)
Some of the families of the New Zealanders killed in the Air New Zealand Airbus crash off the southern coast of France have laid wreaths and flowers upon the water.

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