Making Your Flowers Last

getting the most bang for your buck

**Note about daffodils: Daffodil sap is toxic to other flowers. When trimming your daffodil stems, allow them to sit in a separate container of water for 3 hours. This allows the stems to cauterize and the sap to stop flowing. After 3 hours dump the sappy water and place them back in with your other flowers. Do this every time you trim them.

Start with a clean vase - if you wouldn't drink out of it, its not clean enough.
Use the flower food. Your flowers came with a packet of flower food. Mix it according to packet instructions. To make the packet last longer, halve the recipe in the instructions and use the other half the next time you change the water.
Change the water every other day. Wash out the vase each time you do.
Trim the flowers. When you change the water, trim ~1/4” - 1/2" off the stems.
Keep out of direct sunlight, away from drafts, and away from ripening fruit (which releases ethylene gas and causes the flowers to wilt prematurely).

You can read more about getting the most from your bouquet here!

DRIED FLOWER CARE

Avoid water and humidity.
Keep out of direct sunlight and away from little people (trust me, I know from experience), and pets.
Keep away from drafts.
To store: Pack away in a cardboard box and store at room temperature. Moths LOVE dried flowers, so place a piece of cedar inside the box to keep them away.