The Do’s and Dont’s Of Fresh Flower Care

Do’s:

• Always uses a clean vase and good clean water.
• Always use the fresh flower food provided.
• Always re-cut your flowers before they go in the vase.
• Always remove the leaves below the water line.
• Always check the water daily and top it up.
• Remove any flowers that older or finished, this helps to keep the remaining flowers looking fresh, and feeling good.

Dont’s

• Never use a “homemade” substitute for flower food such as aspirin, soda pop, or bleach.
• Never remove all foliage from the stem
• Never place your flowers with or near fresh fruit or cigarette smoke as both produce ethylene gas which will shorten flower life.
• Never place flowers in direct sunlight, near a heater or open fire, or near any other source of excessive heat.
• Never use flower food in crystal or metal containers as the acid in the flower food will react with metal (including the lead in crystal vases.)