Flower Care

Aside from feeding your bouquet with flower food, a few techniques can help keep your bouquet looking lovely and healthy.

Follow these tips to make your flowers stay longer:

Gently remove the flowers from their packaging.
Fill a vase 2/3 full with room-temperature water.
Empty the entire packet of flower food provided and stir to mix.
Trim 1 to 2 inches off the stems diagonally using scissors or a sharp knife.
Place the flowers into the vase and arrange them as desired.
Recut the stems and change the water every 2 days.

Always remove any stem foliage that will be below the water line. This will help keep the water clear and free of bacteria.

How to make your own flower food,

A fresh bouquet adds color and aroma to any room or space. Adding some components to a vase can assist your blossoms retain their vibrancy and optimum appearance for a longer period of time.

Typically, a trio of these regular household goods make up the flower food:

Sugar: Energy promotes the opening of buds, maintains the brightness of blooms, and keeps foliage full.
An acidifier, citrus fruits' acidity causes water's pH to drop, allowing the water to percolate up the stems and hydrate the plant.
To prolong the life of your flowers, bleach, a bacterium, and fungus-inhibiting substance, helps maintain the flower's distinctive aroma and keeps the water from becoming hazy.

Use things from your kitchen to make one of these recipes. To get the same effects as the typical packets you could receive with your floral deliveries, both solutions include the three essential components of flower food.

Flower Food Recipes

Flower Food Recipe #1

You can substitute any sweet or tangy flavor in your refrigerator or pantry for the citrus soda called for in the first recipe. assemble the following ingredients to create the first DIY flower food:

1 cup of citrus soda.
Water, 3.5 cups.
Household bleach, 1.2 milliliters, or 1 1/2 medication droppers.

Citrus soda is added first, followed by water and then bleach. You don't need to add any additional sugar to this recipe because ordinary soda already includes sugar. Make sure to stay away from diet drink selections because artificial sugar doesn't give your flowers and foliage enough nutrition.

Flower Food Recipe #2

The following recipe option calls for lime or lemon juice, but you may also use a solution made by combining 1/2 teaspoon citric acid with 2 tablespoons of water. The ingredients you'll need are listed below:

60 ml of water.
Fresh lime or lemon juice, 2 teaspoons.
Granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon.
Household bleach, 1/2 teaspoon.

To your vase of water, add the components in the prescribed sequence and stir thoroughly. The recipe can be changed to create more or less while maintaining the same ratios, or you can add any extras to alternative configurations.