Shopping Tips Flowers 

Try not to buy ready-made bouquets and baskets . Usually they are from the "scraps" and flowers with broken stems. This all would have gone in the trash, if not savvy sellers. It is better to ask to make a composition with you, so you can be sure that the bouquet to go with your favorite fresh flowers picked. Flowers treated with various sprays with spangles, quickly lose their freshness.

Never take roses and carnations unnatural blue or green . Stale flowers painted, putting on a night in the water with spetskrasitelyami. These flowers will delight your favorite short, fast fade. Very elegant look of the original flowers in "skirts" of bright cellophane. But buying them is not necessary - this is usually the color of old parties and their crown without the support has just falls apart.

Look closely at the flowers, their buds should be tight, and the outer petals are not broken - it's also a sign of nesvezhesti : flowers bloomed from doing so "fresh buds".

When you choose flowers cloves , Note that the petals were not sluggish, sinking to the bottom. Inflorescence should be well focused and not fall apart. Carnation flowers fairly undemanding and should be able to stand in a vase to three weeks. The main thing to remember - it is better not to put a carnation in a vase with other flowers, especially roses. They are distinguished by an incompatibility with other colors. Pink is not accepted cut, it should break off at the nodes. When stored in the deep cold water stems cloves should be regularly cut, without removing it from water and remove the lower leaves. Carnation good feel of 2-5% solution of sugar, like spraying.

Buying Chrysanthemum , look at the leaves. If they are wilted, choose a plant should not be. In chrysanthemum flowers should not be black midway. Before you put the chrysanthemum in water, cut obliquely to the stem to prevent rotting of the lower leaves of the water removed. Better water changed every day, you can use bleach. In China, chrysanthemum is used as traditional medicine. leaves take for headaches , and dried flowers to increase appetite. Tea from the flowers of chrysanthemums - one of the most popular in this country, it is often used as a painkiller.

When buying a  tulips is better to choose flowers that are in the stage of flower buds. Fully revealed the flowers do not stand for long. Started to dry up the tulips can be cut a little and put on a few minutes in hot water, after having wound the cut tightly with paper. When cutting the stems to ensure that their ends were not fragmented.

Buying Gerbera - it should be noted that cut gerbera require special care. Gerbera poorly preserved in water, so designed for gerbera vessel must be thoroughly washed, and in the water, add bleach and fertilizer for cut flowers. After bringing home a bouquet of roses, it should be immediately put into the water with food source for cut flowers, so they should stand for about five hours. If the stem leaves are present, they must be removed. Trim stems of Gerbera be careful not to "razmochalit" them, make it difficult to supply and plant moisture, making depends the life of a flower. Like most other flowers cut should be done diagonally, at an angle. Given these recommendations, a bouquet of roses can "live" in your home for up to two weeks. gerbera flowers of all the most difficult to absorb water . This flower is cut when the pollen in the inflorescences. The stems are not cut, and broke out at the base, trimmed and deeply immersed for an hour in warm water, then transferred to a tank with water level no more than five centimeters. Stem Gerbera can pierce the top and bottom, or vertical incision from below. Gerberas require frequent changes of water. The cut must be renewed with time. Sometimes the stems are soft and gerberas droop, blossoms fade. To revitalize the flower stalk miss gerbera into a deep vessel, so that the inflorescence was maintained above the surface. Stem should not touch the bottom of the vessel. Once the stem straightened, gerbera can return to the vessel, again with a layer of water no more than five centimeters. Transferring gerbera from store to home, to wear a flower or a cellophane paper funnel. Gerber stays fresh for one and a half weeks.

Gladiolus cut off when the second bottom flower ready to open. Cut gladioli need in the middle of the day. If you cut the evening or morning, the flowers should be allowed to stand without water for half an hour . It soften the fabric and will delay the opening of buds. After that, the stems need to cut, split and leave overnight in water at room temperature, the flowers should stand in the water directly, otherwise, the stalks bent. To accelerate the opening of flowers, you can remove the top buds. Gladiolus flower stays fresh for two days, the entire spike blooms ranging from one to one and a half weeks. Gladiolus like spraying.

buying sunflowers-geliantusy , in the first place you need to pay attention to the leaves of the plant. They should have a fresh new look and, where possible without damage. Better to choose flowers without pollen and stamens. Sunflowers are very moisture-loving plants in a vase, next to the sunflowers should be a lot of water. Water should be changed every two days. Before you put the plant into the water, the stems should be cut at an oblique angle for better saturation of the plant with water and remove all leaves that will be under water. To disinfect the water (this applies not only to geliantusam, but other colors) can be added to aspirin (one tablet per 1 gallon of water), charcoal, streptomycin (half a tablet per 3 liters of water), vinegar (a tablespoon for three liter of water), citric acid (2-3 grams per liter of water). Changing the water is also recommended to update sections of colors. With proper care sunflowers in the house can stand up to two weeks.

Agapanthus preferred storage temperature is 8 - 10 ° C. Flowers must be in the water. The water should always be present bactericides. Before you put the plants in water, cut the leaves from the bottom of the stem.

Azalea best cut in blossom on a branch a few flowers. In the vase life azalea stays fresh on the average of five to ten days. The ends of the stems before you put in the water, it should be split. Azalea likes frequent spraying.

Alstroemeria dissolve its flowers one by one, in the spring, this plant blooms more abundantly than in the period from August to October. Alstroemeria cut to when the branch opened the first buds. At the same time escape from the rhizomes to break down, or first cut, and then remove the remainder of the bush. The leaves of this plant is very brittle, stems rot quickly, so a bowl of chrysanthemums should be cleaned as often as possible. In the vase life Alstroemeria stays fresh on the average one and a half - two and a half weeks.

Amaryllis has a hollow stem, so after cutting (when the first bud blossomed almost) to split the stalk and put it on night in cold water. In order to reduce microbial activity, you can add a teaspoon of ammonia to four liters of water. When the amaryllis is used to create a bouquet or arrangement, then, before you begin working with this plant, in its hollow stem is filled and sealed water cut stopper. Amaryllis flowers are fragile. One flower amaryllis is held for an average of four to six days at 20 ° C.

Begonia Royal is used as decorative greenery. The leaves of this plant are cut off after they reach a certain size and will gain the desired color, and used in the compositions. The ends of the leaves to break down without removing from the water. In the water must be added one teaspoon of ammonia to two liters of water.

Cornflowers require the removal of the bottom of the stem of young leaves, shoots and buds unblown should be sure to water add fertilizer for cut flowers. In the vase life cornflowers can stand for almost a week.

Iris cut the first blossom in the bud. Flower lives one to two days, while others continue to blossom buds. In the truncated form of irises are well preserved in water and stay fresh between one and a half weeks.

Callas cut off at any stage of flowering. In the truncated form of inflorescence is not completely dissolved. Trim ends of stems, calla lilies are placed deep in cold water. The same treatment requires individual leaves Calla. The cut calla lilies need to be updated every day. Flowers remain fresh for a half or two weeks. In the arrangements are also used leaves of this plant. Calla leaves set in the water, keep their freshness. Prior to storage, they should be well washed, split ends of petioles. Petioles callas strengthen by means of thin rods and wires.

Lily cut off when the lower flowers in the inflorescence opened, and the color of green buds turned white, up to the top of the inflorescence. To preserve the smell of flowers wrapped in paper and stored in water. Cut lilies live from three to seven days.

Lilies can please the eye up to six weeks. Stamens with pollen can be removed from the flower pollen that is not contaminated clothing or furniture. The ends of the stems to break down and put in cold water. As the lower flowers wilting on the stem must be removed. Cut lilies in blossom in the inflorescence of the first flower. The buds are revealed one by one.

To revive slightly wilted flowers

Update section under the water, spray the flower on top, cover with damp paper, dip the flowers in a few minutes in warm water at a temperature of 30-40 "C. The heat will expand the blood vessels, the stems will be easier to absorb water , flowers, restore freshness.

To revitalize the faded flowers heavily used method of treatment in hot water. This method should update the sections of the stems under water, flowers and leaves wrapped in paper or placed in a plastic bag, and then stems placed in water at a temperature of 80-90 ° C at a depth of two to three centimeters. Thick stems placed in water for twenty to thirty seconds, fine - for ten seconds. The leaves, which were below the water must be removed. After that, Flowers densely wrap in paper and put in deep cold water. Very often, this method is used to return severely withered the freshness of hyacinths, chrysanthemums, roses, dahlias, tsinniyam, bushes.

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