Growing and Caring for Fresh Cut Flowers
Wednesday April 29, 2009
Hopefully your garden is beginning to reward you with enough beautiful blooms to cut a few and bring them indoors. About.com's Anne-Marie Barton has an excellent short video demonstrating several tips for prolonging the beauty of your cut flowers. Nothing's more disappointing than sacrificing flowers out of your garden, only to see them wilt, whither and die in a day. As Anne-Marie points out, different stems require different techniques. And here are some more tips on which flowers last longest when cut and how to grow your own cutting garden.
- Top Cut Flower Choices
- Selecting and Caring for Cut Flowers
- Consider A Cutting Garden (National Garden Bureau)
- A Perennial Cutting Garden Design
- 10 Tips for Cutting and Displaying Roses
Photo: © Marie Iannotti
Comments
A great compromise between sacrificing all your hard-won blooms and having no flowers in the house at all is to make tiny arrangements in a test tube or tall shot glass. (If you must use a vase, make it monochrome. I keep one in my bathroom, one in the bedroom, and always have one ready for the guest room. Whether it’s a bunch of Dianthus, a couple of Dahlias, or a single Rose, they brighten your home without demolishing the look in your garden.
thank you for the tips to make cut flowers last.
aloes in the garden are gorgeous in different colors and forms and they can
make a beautiful display. I would like the cut flowers to last as long as
possible.