TALKING FLOWERS
How to Make Your Flowers Last Longer.
I'm talking with Mercedes Sarmini www.floralgossip.com.au
Basics: Mercedes' definition of cut flowers to help you with how to treat them.
Mercedes, classifies them not by their sexual reproduction organs by into two categories, seed grown or grown from a bulb, corm, rhizome or tuber.
- Male Cut flowers: grow from a bulb, corm, rhizome or tuber.
- Female cut flowers: grow from seed.
- Male cut flowers: stems are cut straight across.
- Female cut flowers: stems are cut on an angle.
How Much Water Do I Put into the Vase?
Mr Tulip: Mr Hyacinth: Orchids: shallow water only.
Miss Sunflower: Miss Gerbera: shallow water only.
- Change the water daily-use only filtered water or water that has been standing for 4 hours.
Flower food:change the water on the third day.
Not all cut flowers like flower food-anything native, woody stem cut flowers.
- Mist your flowers daily for orchids with only filtered water.
- Cut your flowers when early morning or evening when starch is at it's highest within the stem.
