Those of you who like flower garlands, but not enough to invest
in preserving it through drying them, could learn a few tricks
from this article about prolonging the life of a garland.
first of all, to find a vase as fit as possible to the structure of the
flower; if the garland is too loaded , you might wanna find a relativley
wide vase, if the flowers are tall , use a tall vase accordingly ,
or trim the flowers to fit to your vase’s height.
then, even if the length of the flowers fits exactly to the size of
the vase, you may and perhaps even should trim one centimeter off
the flower’s length, in order to assist the process of conducting
water into the stem. when the tip of the stem dries up it jams up.
and the process of water absorption is damaged. you should try
and make the cut oblique, in order to increase the surface of absorption.
make sure the flowers do not sit out of water for more than 15 minutes.
with these two guidelines in mind, fill the vase with water up to six or
ten centimeters of the vases height. for every litre of water add a
tablespoon of bleach and ateaspoon of sugar. notice: some flower stores
send powders which purpose is to prolong the life of the flowers.
if you’ve received one, use it as replacement for bleach and sugar.
Shanon Field,
Flowers in Design
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