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Saturday, March 24th, 2012

How To Choose Flowers While Saving

I guess everyone thought when buying flowers, how to choose fresh flowers as an inexpensive buy a beautiful bouquet. Buy flowers is not difficult, but you need to buy fresh flowers that will be a long time to please the eye of the recipient. There are some subtleties in the choice of flowers and florists use them to sell low quality goods. This is not due to the fact that all florists are unscrupulous sellers, but only because if not the whole body condition to throw, the landlord does not receive profits, and the seller pay. We will explain the main points on which you should pay attention when choosing a product. When choosing roses: 1) roses should be tight no slack bud (it is said, that she rose and otpilas fresh) 2) The bud should be a shirt (shirt – two small, not flat at the bottom of the petal bud. No shirt rose quickly cutting and will not stand for long) 3) Foliage from roses should be fresh and not hang like a rag. 4) It is also often There are rotten petals in bud.

When choosing a tulip: 1) The first sign is not fresh tulips yellow foliage. 2) You must watch the crown of the tulip, it should not be dry and clear. When choosing a Bouquet: The most complex with a choice of colors is to choose fresh flowers. Since the florists are poor rose so as not to put in a bunch kick. The bouquet can hide many flaws roses. For example a bad rose can be put on the lashes (packaging bud Rose), thereby hide dead rose. Often, vendors use different glosses to hide the real type of rose.

Highlights from the choice of bouquet: 1) bouquet of medium size should be no less than 1,000-1,200 rubles. (A good bunch of fresh roses cheaper cost can not). Cheaper options for this flowery bouquets of roses cellophane on the eyelashes or turned inside out. These roses have long been dead! 2) It is also often not a fresh product is selected by the color of packaging in the background, which is not visible defect colors.

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Sunday, March 11th, 2012

Hidden In A Bouquet Of Flowers? Care Tips

Given the time that the flowers had no water, no matter, if you bought a bunch at the store or for you to order flowers delivery, it must as soon as possible to put into the water. It is recommended to take off their packaging with bouquet, as some packaging materials may cause damage to the flower. Such kind of packaging, is cellophane, which prevents the passage of air to the flowers. Before you put the flowers in a vase water to remove the lower leaves (the ones that will be shipped out period), cut the stems of flowers at an angle of 45 degrees (which would cut surface was as much as possible). This is to ensure that the flowers would have received the necessary amount of water. And only then put the flowers in a container of water. Often it happens that you are presented with flowers at the meetings, events, or even just on the street and the ability to put flowers in water – no.

In such cases, for a time, flowers can be wrapped in a paper scheduled water (eg, newspaper). Once you will have the opportunity to place flowers in a vase with water, do not forget to trim the tips of the stems and remove leaves, as described above. If by virtue of circumstances, the bouquet was a long time without water and the flowers started to wilt, you can restore them. To do this, the stems are immersed deep in water, and flowers wrapped in damp paper and put in an hour or two in a cold room. You can also Cut flowers in vases on the night stand in a cool room (from +10 to +15 C) or tightly wrapped in paper and dipped in a bucket of water. Some cut flowers are restored only in hot water. In privyadshih plants under water cut off the stem ends in 2 – 3 cm and placed in a bowl with water at a temperature of 50 – 55oS, 20 – 30 minutes they are taken out and put in cold water. Flowers should be stored in a cool place, where there is no direct sunlight and drafts.

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