Flower drying tips

12/02/08

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.

 

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.

Wreaths, flowers laid at crash site (Newstalk ZB via Yahoo!Xtra News)
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Cut Flowers: All-natural Stress Busters (Lexington Clipper-Herald)
(ARA) - Work deadlines, parenting struggles, family time pressures and relationship challenges -- modern life is full of stress. The good news is there is an all-natural, relatively low-cost way to relieve stress and beautify your home at the same time -- cut flowers.

Killers' Brandon Flowers: Style Icon or Just Insane? (Spin)
When Brandon Flowers took the stage for the Killers' Saturday Night Live appearance, I think I spoke for most viewers when I gasped: " What is he wearing? " A black tuxedo jacket festooned with huge plumed epaulettes? What is that? Taxidermy chic? Showgirl cool? The next day, I couldn't remember the songs they played. I couldn't remember if guitarist Dave Keuning even wore pants. All I ...

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2 December 2008 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.

Man shot, killed near Conservatory of Flowers (San Francisco Chronicle)
A young man from San Diego who had recently moved to San Francisco to join friends and pursue new opportunities died Saturday night after he was shot in the back near the Conservatory of Flowers at Golden Gate Park, police and the man's father said Sunday....

Flowers Foods, Inc. (FLO): Zacks Rank Buy (Zacks.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Flowers Foods has recently raised its full-year 2008 guidance and released its 2009 guidance.

Nature's Stress-busters: Flowers (Lexington Clipper-Herald)
(ARA) - Feeling a little stressed? Need an energy boost? Buy some flowers. Taking the time to stop and smell the roses could do more than you think.

Webcast Alert: Flowers Foods' Analyst Day in New York (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
NYSE: FLO - News) Flowers Foods will webcast its presentation to analysts in New York at 12:30 p.m. on December 2, 2008. This event will feature presentations by key Flowers executives and will focus on helping investors better understand the company's operations and strategies.

Indian hotels balance security with guests' comfort (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The men were only carrying a cake box and a bouquet of flowers but as soon as they approached the five-star Mumbai hotel they were stopped and their parcels whisked away to a metal detector.

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