Fresh flowers at home remind of colorful meadows and hot summer sun. To keep the cut flowers fresh longer, learn some tricks that will make you enjoy color bouquets a lot longer. Remember that drying flowers is not fashionable (and the dust that gets on them may have a bad effect on your health), so when the flowers begin to fall, can you wax them to keep their natural form. Flowers prepared in this way will be suitable for compositions in the vase. Here are some interesting ways to keep your flowers in the best possible form:
1. Trim the stems at an angle of 45 degrees – in this way the flower will absorb the right amount of water. Take care to snatch the leaves so they are not submerged in water. If we remove all the leaves from the stems, buds will grow faster
always cut the stems at the right angle
2. Vodka + teaspoon of sugar – if you add them to the water with flowers then they will look flawless for a long time and will not fade quickly.
alcohol with sugar keep flowers fresh for much longer
3. Instead of a tall vase, the best way would be to create a grid of adhesive tape – each shallow dish can be used for this flower composition. Remember to first lay the largest flowers (the full ones), then medium and at the end make up the vacant space with the smallest flowers. The composition will certainly not fall apart
flower composition made with adhesive tape
flowers in a shallow dish
4. Copper coins keep the water clean for a very long time – drop some coins into a flower vase, because the copper contained in the coins acts as an acidifier, preventing fungus and bacteria from forming in the water so that it is fresh and clean.
the copper from which the coins are made purifies the water
5. Use bubble wrap – because not all buds of flowers want to swim on the water, a bubble wrap will help, which will keep any kind of flower on the water. It is important that there is enough water in the dish to allow the flowers to float freely on the surface without touching the bottom
flowers with bubble wrap
6. From the broken flowers create a composition that you can put or hang – suitable for these compositions will be a floral foam, which can be soaked before, and then cut into any shape that we fill with flowers
colorful composition with floral foam
7. Short, broken flowers can be used to create small several bouquets – for example, they will be fashionably arranged in cups, in many colors. They may be attached or loosely attached to a floral foam
small bouquets in a cup
8. Ice cubes instead of watering – when they are gradually melted, the flower itself will draw water from it
ice cube in pot with orchid
9. Preserve flowers with wax – so that the flowers are nice and well preserved before they wilt to best try is to wax them. For this purpose, dip the flowers in a paraffin wax (first down with a bud, then the stalk) and dry them in the same way. When the wax will dry completely after a while – the flowers will be ready
waxed flowers DIY
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