Add this to the flower water and the flowers will stay fresh all week, despite the hot weather

Choose fresh flowers

To keep flowers fresh for a long time, you need to choose newly cut flower branches. You should observe the base to see if the base is still fresh, the cut is new or not. The petals must be fresh and still firm. If you choose to buy a bunch of flowers, you should remove wilted and faded flowers so as not to affect the other flowers. It is even better to buy flowers from the garden because these are newly cut flowers, stay fresh longer and bloom more beautifully than cold-stored flowers.

Wash the flower vase

When arranging flowers, you need to wash the vase. This is one of the mistakes that many people make that causes flowers to wilt quickly. After arranging flowers, a lot of dirt and bacteria can accumulate in the vase. This is the reason why the flower roots quickly rot and the flowers quickly wilt. You need to wash the vase, rinse thoroughly with clean water and let it dry before using.

Pruning flower branches properly

When buying flowers, you need to wash the base to remove dirt. In addition, you should remove the leaves close to the base to avoid the leaves being submerged in water, rotting quickly, causing the flowers to wilt.

Soak the flowers in water for about 15 minutes to let the flowers absorb water, then use sharp scissors to cut the base of the flower branch at a 45 degree angle. Doing so allows the flower branch to absorb more water in the vase. If you cut horizontally, the base of the branch will touch the bottom of the vase and make it more difficult to absorb water.

You should cut off damaged or wilted branches to avoid affecting other flower branches.

Flower water

Instead of using plain water to arrange flowers, you should add nutrients to the water to keep the flowers fresh longer.

The simplest way is to add about 2 tablespoons of sugar to the flower water. Sugar provides nutrients for the flower branches to stay fresh longer and bloom more beautifully. You can also replace sugar with carbonated soft drinks. Only about 1/4 can of soft drinks is enough for a vase of flowers.

Another way to help flowers stay fresh longer is to use vinegar or lemon. These two ingredients are acidic, which helps prevent bacteria from growing, helping flowers stay fresh longer.

You can also crush vitamin B1 or aspirin and mix them into water. Both of these drugs help flowers stay fresh longer.

Adding a little mouthwash or a few drops of dishwashing liquid to the water also helps prevent bacteria from growing, keeping the flowers from rotting. Thanks to that, the flowers will stay fresh longer.

Currently, there are flower care solutions on the market. You can also buy this product and use it according to the instructions printed on the packaging to keep the flowers fresh longer.

Place the vase in a cool place

One of the important factors to keep flowers fresh longer is the location of the vase. You should place flowers in a cool place with soft light. Avoid placing flowers in places with strong sunlight, wind, fan wind, air conditioning wind and do not place them next to electronic devices. Heat and wind emitted from indoor devices will cause flowers to wilt quickly.

Change the water regularly

Change the water for the flowers occasionally to remove dirt and slow down the process of rotting the flower stem. When changing the water, wash the vase and the flower stem. In addition, you can cut the flower stems to remove the rotten part as well as help the flower absorb more water. If there are wilted flower stems in the vase, remove them so as not to affect the other flower stems.