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CARE OF FLOWERS
 
Buy the best flowers
Looking at the stems and leaves, you can better understand the freshness of the material that is not observing the flower. The stems too thin, smelly or discolored should be avoided, as were the leaves wilted, faded, stained or yellowed. A good florist will never put on sale flowers of this kind, because the flowers must be cleaned and prepared before being displayed, make sure that the stems are turgid, bright and hard rather than soft. You should not buy flowers that are folding or bending the stem. It must then assess the consistency of the petals, while some are naturally thin as tissue paper, any sign of transparency in opaque petals usually is synonymous with old age. Even the color change is important, as any darkening of the rim or the center of the petals of the flower is no sign of freshness.
First speech on flowers
The stems of the flowers, either from the garden and florist's shop, must be cut to be placed in vases. The cut is made obliquely, preferably with a knife, not with scissors, which crush the stem, blocking the vessels employed to transport water. Woody stems, instead, should be cut in height, with two cross-cuts for an inch. As a second operation should remove all the leaves below the water container. The flooding, it promotes rapid decay of leaves and buds and cause the proliferation of bacteria that block the entry of water in the stems. Some flowers such as dahlias, lilacs and Philadelphus, go completely private from the leaves.
Subsequent care of the flowers
The flowers and foliage in need of constant care. Before placing the material in the most appropriate place in terms of visual impact should be taken into account his state of health and freshness. The air currents carry the death flowers, because they evaporate water from leaves faster than the stems are able to supply them. The heat, or rather the excess heat is another deadly enemy, so I avoid the windows that face south or west or locations near radiators or other heat sources. The containers should be inspected and filled every day, twice a day if necessary.
Cut flowers - nutrients
there is often an objective validity of folk remedies. A recipe of this type includes mixing 1 tablespoon (kitchen) of salt, 1 tablespoon of potassium chloride, 4 tablespoons of aluminum, 60 tablespoons of sugar. Fifteen cubic centimeters of this mixture will be dissolved in 600 cubic cm of water. Should prepare more solution than they need in order to refill container several times.
Solutions more traditional aspirin dissolved in water is sez'altro best known and most used, even when mixed with sugar. The standard dose is aspirin and a tablespoon of sugar in a medium size bowl. Sugar, in fact, it nourishes the flowers and spirina reduces water loss from leaves. The coal and the aspirin aluminum are used to maintain clear water. A few drops of bleach or disinfectant remains low bacterial growth and slows decomposition.
Some tips that you may enjoy as long as possible the color and beauty of cut flowers:
* Fill-a vase of clean water after well rinsed, if necessary with bleach.
* For certain flower-stalk spring water the dose should be reduced: for Gerberas should be about 60-10 cm.
* For the roses-the height of water must be at least 40% of the rose.
* Add-a bag of food for cut flowers.
*-When food is not available use a few drops of pure bleach, unscented, in order to delay the formation of bacteria in the water.
* It is well-sugar that has the same function.
*-Experience with the copper wire immersed in water.
*-Try to change the water every day even if there is no food.
* Cut-flowers just purchased at an angle (the roses to 3 or 4 cm) with a sharp knife. Should this transaction was made keeping the cut under water to prevent air bubbles from forming in the lymphatic vessels of the stem which makes it difficult to intake water to the flower and leaves.
* Repeat-cut daily at least 1 cm.
*-Always remove the lower leaves so that they are not in contact with water.
*-Do not place flowers in the sun or to air currents and not near any heat source as this is accelerated water evaporation from the leaves and flowers that can not be compensated by the aspiration of flowers 'water from the vessel.
A dry and warm is always quickly wither the flowers as well as the wind.
*-Do not move close to the fruit because it gives off ethylene, which is a potent poison for the flowers and makes them dry quickly.
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