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    Cut Flowers On Your Table | The Secret To Long-Lasting Bouquets

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    (Image Source: Little Flower School)

    Do you love the charm of a simple vase of cut flowers on your table?

    Here are some tips we’ve used at our household, many taught to me by my mother and grandmother gleaned through years of doing.

     

    This dreamy painting epitomizes how I feel about slipping outside for a moment with a knife and vase. Mothers need to do that, you know. The quiet, the warmth, the introspection, the gentle breeze, the birds who feel invaded~ it is a precious time to worship the Creator and all His many benefits.

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     Mercie Cutting Flowers, Edmund Tarbell

    There is an exuberance and homespun beauty in having flowers at the table or next to a stack of books being read that somehow makes it feel more like home.

    “I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”  ~Emma Goldman

     

    Simple Tips To Fabulous Cut Flowers

    Rule 1: Cut your flowers in the cool of the day, morning or evening. Use a sharp knife and cut at an angle.

    Rule 2: Remove any leaves on the stem that will be in water. Foliage covered with water will rot, cause discolored water, and stem blockage. Bacteria-blocked stems are unable to supply needed water to the living flower, and they will deteriorate more rapidly.

    Rule 3: Take a container of lukewarm water (not much warmer than body temp – 95° to 110°F) along to the garden. Immediately after cutting, place the stems in the water.

    Rule 4: Always use tepid water in your vases. Cold water has a higher oxygen content, which can cause air bubbles to form in the stems of your flowers, blocking their water uptake. Spring bulbs such as tulips and daffodils are the exception to this rule as they prefer to be placed in cold water.

    grape hyacinth and tulips and bubbles on stems in water

    Dainty grape hyacinth and Dutch tulips (l.) Leaves under the water are removed.

    For a very special event, when you return inside, you can place the container and flowers in a refrigerator set at 35° to 40°F for 3 to 12 hours. Cooling permits the plant to take up more water than it releases and helps hold flower freshness. These tips come from the Iowa State Fair Flower Exhibit publication.

     

    Hydrangeas will occasionally droop quickly in the vase and dipping the stems in alum (or boiling water) can do wonders to revive them. Here is the secret of alum.

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    Natural Ways to Preserve Cut Flowers

    1. White vinegar and sugar ~ Combine 1 tsp. of white granulated sugar with 2 TBSP. of white vinegar and one quart of water. Cut flowers love it.

    2. Hydrogen peroxide ~ Some florists add a capful or two of hydrogen peroxide to the water to keep cut flowers looking fresher longer.

    Placing an aspirin or penny in the water is not effective as a floral preservative according to the Iowa publication mentioned above. 

    Martha Stewart’s Flower-Arranging Secrets:

    I don’t own a frog, but have used the tape idea in a short, wide bowl, and it worked beautifully.

    flower frog out of tape and hydrogen peroxide to keep flowers longer

    After I got my little Nikon COOLPIX S8100 for this blog, I took so many images. Here are some of our favorite bouquets from past gardens that have been kept fresh by these preservation methods.

     

    Favorite Bouquets 

    Apricot ‘Drift’ roses glow with morning sunlight in a vase that my mother found at a Portland Days steam engine festival and…

    Elderberry berries, honeysuckle ‘Mandarin’, and hydrangea in an old chipped $8 Wedgwood pitcher~

    roses and honeysuckle

    Apricot Drift roses (l.) and Gold Flame honeysuckle and a cluster of ripening elderberries

    Lily of the valley and white anemone ‘Snowdrift’  in yard sale (2/$3) pressed-glass cream pitcher and…

    Mixed bouquet keeping George W. company. It consists of columbine, Japanese iris, ninebark shrub flower pods (red), zebra grass, poor man’s pepper, speedwell, roses, all quickly tucked into a 3″ antique pitcher found at a garage sale for a buck~

    lily of the valley and mixed bouquet

    Snowdrift anemone with lily of the valley (l.) and a mixed bouquet with hummingbird-magnet columbine (note the tubular petals) and iris

     

    White roses with Russian sage and…

    Jackmanii clematis, Veronica, and bugleweed in an old Milk of Magnesia bottle~

    White David Austin roses and Jackmanni clematis

    White David Austin roses (l.) and deep purple Jackmanii clematis “Superba” with bugleweed and Veronica

    David Austin rose, ‘Wisley’ in an old Wilton Armetale pewter mug ($8 for a pair), and…

    Tulips, daffodils, and grape hyacinth from this spring in front of a lovely shawl given to me by my dear friend, Anita~

    Cut Flowers On Your Table: The Secret To Long-Lasting Bouquets. Wisley roses and tulips and daffodils

    David Austin “Wisley” roses and my tulips and daffodils

     

    Even if all you have in your yard are dandelions, they should be perfectly beautiful in light of the statement God made in the garden: that it was ‘very good’! Oh, the joy to receive them from a child!

    Cut Flowers On Your Table: The Secret To Long-Lasting Bouquets. boy holding bouquet of dandelions

    Wonderful dandelions (see recipes here and here)

    Take time to smell the flowers today, then bring them inside!

     

    “Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us,
        and establish the work of our hands upon us;
        yes, establish the work of our hands!” ~Psalm 90:17

    Cut Flowers On Your Table: The Secret To Long-Lasting Bouquets. The Little flower School, NYC

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