Flower care tips

Flower care tips

Help keep your floral gift looking their best for longer, below are some simple steps to help give your flowers the proper care.

Flower Bouquets.

1. Remove your flowers from their gift wrapping and box, your flowers will have a aqua pack around the stems , Hold your bouquet over a sink and carefully pierce the aqua pack to release the water . Your aqua pack wrap can now be discarded.

2. Half fill a clean vase with fresh water .

3. Cut around 2cm off each flower stem at a 45 degree angle , this allows your flowers to uptake sufficient water .

4. Remove lower leaves so when placed in your vase they do not fall below the waterline,Leaves below the water line allows bacteria to form which will shorten your flowers vase life.

5.Keep your flowers tied to keep the arrangement style or you may remove the binding if youd like to arrange them yourself.

*Remember the more flowers in your vase the more water they will drink so check water levels daily.topping up when necessary.

6. Change vase water every two days and recut the stems again at an angle .

* Choose where to display your flowers carefully

*keep flowers in a cool location and always away from direct sun light and sources of heat such as radiators.

*Flowers also need to be kept away from fruit bowls, this is because fruits emit ethylene gases which will cause your flowers to perish quickly. Ethylene gas is completely harmless to humans but is deadly to flowers.

* As some flowers are toxic to humans and pets ,such as Lilly pollen witch is poisonous to pet cats, , please take care to keep your arrangement away from small children and pets.