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Five quick and easy tips to keep fresh cut flowers alive for longer

Whether you received a bouquet as a gift or treated yourself to one, you’ll want to keep your fresh cut flowers alive and looking fabulous for as long as possible.

As professional florists with decades of experience working with fresh blooms, we know a thing or two about keeping flowers vase fresh.

Purple and white cut flower arrangement in a vase.

Quick and simple cut flower tips

1. Use flower food

Most florists include a single sachet of flower food. It may not look like much, but the combination of sugar, citric acid, and bleach helps cut flowers last longer. Just add the sachet contents to the water in your vase and it will do the rest.

2. Keep your flowers chill

Shove the cheese and dinner leftovers to one side, and make space in the fridge for your fresh cut flowers. As with all fresh produce, keeping flowers cool prolongs their life. So after enjoying them during the day, put them in the fridge overnight for some chill out time.

3. Make fresh cuts

Using sharp scissors or secateurs, make an angled cut about 1-2 inches from the bottom of the stem. Do this when you first get them, and again every three or four days. Making a new cut exposes a fresh part of the stem so it can absorb the water it needs more easily.

4. Keep bacteria under control

Bacteria is the enemy of cut flowers. Left to its own devices, bacteria will cover your vase and flowers in gunky slime. The stems, the leaves, the vase and even the water you pour into it all harbour bacteria, so you can’t avoid bacterial growth completely. But you can slow it down, which helps your cut flowers live for longer.

  • Before using, wash the vase in warm, soapy water to remove any residual bacteria.
  • Remove leaves that sit below the waterline.
  • Change the water every three days.

Extra tip: When you change the water, add another sachet of flower food for extra oomph.

5. Drop in a baby aspirin

Mixing baby aspirin (a low-dose aspirin) in with your flower arrangement will lower the pH level of the water, recreating the acidic soil conditions preferred by flowers. If your arrangement includes Christmas greens such as Juniper and cedar, or sap-secreting perennials such as poppies and poinsettia, adding the tablet will also stop the sap forming a seal at the end of the stem. (Hardened sap stops the stem from taking up water, causing it to droop.)

Now you know how to make fresh cut flowers last longer

All it takes is a little extra attention—first when preparing your flowers for the vase, and then every few days with water changes and fresh cuts to the bottom of the stems. Following these quick tips can be the difference between your fresh cut flowers lasting a couple of days and them lasting a week or longer.

Next time you treat yourself or someone special to a bouquet of flowers, remember to try these methods out for yourself.

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About Peter Frigeri

Horticulturist. Entrepreneur. Eco-adventurer. Peter Frigeri has been innovating in business since he moved to Las Vegas in 1991 to run trade show operations for Showtime Florists. Just a couple years later, he went out on his own, founding Falcon Floral, and within five years, he evolved that business into Expo Ease. In 2000 he took advantage of technological innovations to expand his company to offer a full suite of event services, from show decor to photography marketing. Meanwhile, in 2009, Peter launched his third business, Gaia Flowers Plants Gifts. With a focus on local and sustainably-grown products, Gaia is also a full-service company, with services ranging from event floral, delivery to commercial plant maintenance. And as if that weren’t enough, Peter is an officer on the boards of two local nonprofits, Great Basin Permaculture and Friends of Gold Butte. In both his personal and professional lives, Peter does everything he can to fight for the preservation of the Earth and its resources, so that his children and grandchildren can enjoy its bounty as much as he does.

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