![]() ![]() Place stems in water immediately and let them condition in a dark cool area for a few hours to overnight.Whether you grow your own flowers or buy flowers at a market: Try not to crush the stems. Cut the stems as long as possible to give you something to work with when arranging. ![]() Use sharp, clean scissors or pruners and cut at an angle.Cut flowers before they are fully open, usually halfway open and showing color.Cut flowers in early morning or evening-not during the heat of midday.Here are a few tips to keep your bouquets long-lasting and looking their best. We stretch wide mesh nylon netting (some of it used to be a volleyball net!) horizontally across the beds to give the plants support and keep the stems growing straight. Since we sell cut flowers to local florists and at our local farmers’ market, our garden is a utilitarian one. My cut garden with netting support for long stems. Plants live to reproduce and once they have formed seeds for the next generation, they have no reason to bloom again. Luckily, regularly cutting annuals such as zinnias and snapdragons encourages the plants to branch and form even more blossoms.ĭon’t let your annual flowers set seed or flower production will come to a halt. These bouquets are on their way to a farmers’ market. The best bouquet for you has the flowers you love most in it! Don’t forget the greenery! Herbs, ladies’ mantle, artemisia, and funky seedpods will add even more interest to your bouquets.Or, add a draping weeper such as love-lies-bleeding to hang over the side. To really make a statement, throw in some ornamental grass.Sweet peas, nicotianas, stock, carnations, and dianthus can be depended upon for added fragrance.Hydrangea makes a great base add other flowers in between the petals.Don’t forget the big showy blossoms of dahlias, sunflowers, phlox, zinnias, lilies, and cleome.Composite flowers like asters, daisies, coneflowers, cosmos, calendula, and rudbeckia lend pizzazz.Spiky shapes like astilbe, liatris, snapdragons, delphinium, salvias, and veronica add height to your arrangements. Different heights always please the eye.How to Keep Cut Flowers Fresh and Alive Longer ![]()
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