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Welcome to YourWeb.Info Shopping Mall! | | If you work with flowers a lot and have discovered a few tips and tricks to help make our lives easier when working with flowers, please send them in to Flower Tips. Here are some YWI tips for helping your flowers last longer, look better, work better and cost less. YWI hopes that all the while saving you tons of precious time. Your flowers will look better and last longer in the vase if you cut and handle them properly. Remember that a plant with its flowers is a living, breathing organism. When harvesting you must learn to think like a flower, empathize with the flower, and try to understand the physiological processes at work in a flower. |
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Flowers add a tremendous amount of color, texture and scent to a room, they also lend a note of cheer on the grayest/cloudest of days. However, purchasing flowers at your local florist can sometimes be time consuming, expensive and frustrating. Many times the flowers you want are not available or, if they are, they can look wilted, past their prime, or just not "fresh."
Growing your own cutting garden offers you the opportunity of growing exactly what you want in the colors that you love. You can also make sure you grow flowers that will work in the rooms you want to display them in. If you do not know where to start, begin where you would if redecorating, with the walls. If you have neutral colors on the walls, most any flowers will look great against them. If you lean toward bold colors on your walls, plant flowers in the same color family.
Plan your garden so that you will have flowers from the earliest part of spring to the latest part of autumn. Plant early bloomers like buttercup, deep blue hyacinth, yellow crocus and pristine. White snowdrops foretell the prospect of the warmer months ahead, while the deep, rich colors of chrysanthemums and asters provide the last glimmer of warm, fragrant days. Plant your flowers in a design so that when one variety is finished blooming, another is just coming into show. This will provide a continuous floral backdrop in your garden and prevent large gaping holes.
Cut your blooms often and cut them early in the morning or late in the afternoon, never in the direct sun or heat of day. The more you cut the flowers from your cutting garden, the larger the amount of flowers your garden will yield.
Tips on cutting flowers for arrangements:
- Always cut stems on an angle. This allows a larger surface area for water uptake and keeps your flowers fresh longer.
- Experiment with combining different flower shapes. Work with the natural lines of the flowers and trust your eye to make sure your arrangement is balanced.
- For longer lasting foliage, such as galax and leather leaf fern (or even Christmas greens), submerge the foliage in a solution of one part liquid floor wax and two parts water. Soak at least 20 minutes and then allow to dry. Once dry, the foliage can be reused.
- Shorter stemmed flowers of all varieties (including roses!) make longer - lasting cut flowers because the water doesn't have to travel as far up the stem!
- There are no wrong color combinations! Green foliage will unite all colors. Follow your tastes and experiment.
Do not be shy or intimidated about making arrangements that please you, what may be a weed to others is a rose to you. Be daring and creative when placing flowers in your home. If you make the occasional mistake, remember, it will not last long. That is the curse and the blessing of flowers and what makes their brief presence among us exquisite.
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