🌷 Hand Tied Bouquets: Keep Your Flowers Blooming ! 🌷
1. Unwrap & Recut: First things first, unwrap your bouquet and give those stems a fresh cut. Trim about a half inch off each stem at a diagonal under running water. It’s like a spa day for your blooms—so they can drink up and stay fabulous!
2. Hydrate ASAP: Get your bouquet into a clean vase with room temperature water pronto. This gives your flowers a quick refresh and keeps them looking fab.
Hot Tip : Add a capful of bleach to your vase water. This helps keep bacteria out of the water. Clean water = happy flowers.
3. Pick the Perfect Vase:
Tall Bouquets: Go for a tall vase. It helps the stems stand up straight and shows off your bouquet’s best angles.
Compact Bouquets: Choose a shorter vase. It keeps things snug and lets your bouquet’s natural beauty shine through.
4. Remove Wilting Leaves: Got any leaves floating below the waterline? Snip them off. This keeps the water clean and your bouquet looking super lively.
5. Switch It Up: Every few days, give the flowers a little rearrange in the vase. It ensures every bloom gets its moment to shine and keeps them healthy.
Don’t be afraid to cut off the wire that binds your bouquet together. Cutting this off actually helps your flowers to breath, and allows you to fluff and move your flowers freely.
6. Keep It Cool: Avoid placing your bouquet in direct sunlight or near heat sources like radiators or stoves. Flowers thrive in cool, stable environments, so give them a chill spot away from any hot or sunny spots.
7. Enjoy: Check for wilting flowers regularly and remove them. This keeps your other flowers fresh longer. Hot tip : Try playing around with drying your own flowers! Not every flower dries the same, but this is a great reason to experiment!