How to keep roses at home longer

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

When composing a large bouquet of roses or receiving it as a birthday present (which is undoubtedly much nicer), you should think about what needs to be done to make it stand longer. After all, such beauty, firstly, costs a lot of money, and secondly, it’s a pity all the same if it fades on the second or third day. Therefore, there are several rules for making bouquets.

Physiology of flowers

It turns out that not all types of roses are combined with each other! Therefore, in the matter of how to keep roses longer, you need to understand the varieties. Metabolic products of one type can adversely affect the he alth of another. As for compatibility with other flowers, roses are very capricious in this regard. You can add only lilies, geraniums, decorative greenery to them in a bouquet. In no case should you combine too strongly smelling flowers with them - violets or sweet peas, lilies of the valley or magnolias.

You should also pay attention to the time of day when you give roses. It is said that dark roses tolerate light better during the day, while light flowers perceive the light of chandeliers and lamps well.

Choose a vase

And here, too, there are some nuances. For example, if the bouquet is low, but lush, it needs an appropriate wide vase. It is better to untie the ribbons at once andlet the flowers breathe, bloom. Tall stems need a thin and long vase.

Thinking about how to keep roses longer, you should pay attention to the composition of flowers in one vase: it is not necessary to buy all the blossoming buds, it is much better if half is closed, then every day the bouquet will renew itself. Pay attention to the tone of the vase - for such a bouquet it is better to choose one-color ones (from ceramics or porcelain).

How to keep roses in a vase longer?

Here are the basic rules for beautiful royal flowers:

• A freshly presented bouquet of roses should be cut by about 1/3 (if you want to keep the stems long, then at least 1/4), clear of thorns and lower leaves. Make the cut oblique so that there are no air pockets in the green "vessels".



• You can go the easy way and use preservatives sold in flower stalls. Or you can cook them yourself: for example, sugar and s alt help in how to keep a bouquet of roses longer (2-3 tsp is enough for a large volume of water).
• Besides crystalline powders, roses take acid liquid well: add a tablespoon of vinegar or lemon juice. An Aspirin tablet dissolved in 1 liter of water will also work.
• Interesting: flowers were kept in a silver vessel in ancient times, because they stood three times longer. So, we lower a silver spoon or a ring to the bottom of the vase, after which we admire the blooming buds for a long time.

What kind of waterchoose for a bouquet? Of course, given the quality of the water from our water pipes, it is better to prepare the settled liquid in advance. It should be cool, but not cold! It should be changed daily, without being too lazy to wash the stems under the tap. It is also worth spraying the leaves and buds with a spray bottle.

By the way, melted snow or rain water is the best drink for these plants. If it is possible to keep flowers in it, do not hesitate, this is the best way to keep roses longer.