With these five simple techniques, the flowers you buy or cut can stay fresh for longer.

After the flowers are cut from the branches, if you want them to maintain a stronger viewing period, you need to soak them in clean water or put them in the freezer. here are five practical tips for keeping flowers fresh. It's good to use at home.

Whether it is the flowers bought from the florist or the flowers picked by yourself from the backyard garden, they can become beautiful flower arrangements.

There are many ways to keep flowers fresh for longer. the following five tips are very practical and simple, and there are ready-made tools at home.

1. Pay attention to shopping

If you buy flowers in a florist, you must not buy flowers that are already fully open. It is best to buy flowers in bud. Of course, you should also check whether the bud is still strong. If it becomes soft, do not buy it. Gently blow to see if the petals will fall. Also check whether the leaves at the bottom have withered and the branches have softened.

two。 Proper pruning

Cut or buy flowers to the bottom of the branch oblique cut, the angle of oblique cut is about 45 degrees, but also to remove all the leaves at the bottom, to avoid leaves soaked in water, otherwise it will rot and stink, affecting the preservation of flowers.

3. Appropriate addition of sugar

If you want to keep flowers fresh longer, you can regularly put a few drops of Coke, Sprite or sugar in the water. If the vase is large, you can put about a small tablespoon, or you can use edible vinegar instead. The purpose of this is to increase the sugar in the water, help the bottom incision to better absorb water, and prevent leaves and flowers from withering due to lack of water.

4. The wonderful use of warm water

There are some flowers wilting, then you can put the bottom gap, oblique cut and put in warm water, soak properly for 30 minutes, if the flowers recover, then continue to soak in clear water, if there is no way to recover, then can only throw away. (if it is a spherical flower, do not use this method) the common hydrangea can not be kept fresh in this way. It is necessary to spray water regularly to keep the flowers moist. If the flowers wilt, they should be properly soaked in clean water.

5. Change water regularly

If you want to keep the flowers fresh longer, you must change the water regularly, usually once a day or two, to keep the flowers fresh longer. If the clear water is not changed for a long time, it is easy to stink.

Of course, we should also pay attention to the maintenance of the environment, can not be placed in a place with light, the ambient temperature can not be too high, otherwise flowers are easy to stick wilting, but also pay attention not to put apples, bananas and other fruits next to, otherwise it will accelerate flower decay.