It’s early spring. So my bunches have mostly tulips, daffodils and hellebores. The freesias and Dutch iris’s aren’t far off.
I use flowers at different life stages. I always make sure that I include some flowers in bud so you’ll have flowers that keep opening after the blooms in full flower die.
Looking After Your Bunch of Flowers
Put your flowers in a vase or jar of water as soon as you can. Make sure the water is almost at the top of the vase or jar, and that your vase or jar is clean.
Top up the water in your vase or jar every day or even better - change the water.
Keep your flowers out of direct sunlight. Some flowers will wilt if they get too hot.
Your flowers have been picked at the best time and conditioned to make them last as long as possible. However, every flower has a different vase life. Some last longer than others (embrace the ephemeral nature of flowers). When you change the vase or jar water edit out all of the dead or dying flowers. You can recut the ends of most flowers (this helps them to drink up water). Don’t cut the ends of poppies, hellebores or any flower that I’ve conditioned by putting the ends in boiling water (usually flowers with fleshy stems) - you’ll notice the ends of these flowers have changed colour. If you want to recut these flowers you’ll need to put the ends in a cup of just boiled water.
Any vessel or jar is a potential vase. Experiment and have fun using different containers. There are NO RULES!
Here are some of the flower bunches I’ve made recently.
They’re all made with seasonal flowers that I’ve grown.
