Keep your eyes high... this is called fresh cut flowers

Most people like fresh cut flowers, colorful roses, beautiful hydrangeas, fresh stars and fragrant lilies.

How to choose fresh cut flowers correctly, you are making a big mistake by simply looking at the appearance. You should not only know all kinds of flowers, but also understand the characteristics of each kind of flowers, so that you can choose the "good flowers" you want according to your needs.

What is a fresh cut flower?

Fresh cut flower refers to all kinds of flowers, leaves, branches and fruits that are cut from living plants and have ornamental value, including cut flowers, leaves, branches and fruits. The four traditional cut flowers in the world are rose, chrysanthemum, carnations and gladiolus, which are widely used in making baskets, bouquets, wreaths, vases, wallflowers and so on.

Rose

Rosaceae / Rosa rugosa

Choose a hard flower branch with sufficient length, few thorns and a hard neck (the top of the flower branch connects with the flower). This is used for longer vase life.

Bright colors, good petals, tough, preferably velvet or satin luster, neat petals and beautiful flowers.

In addition to observing the design and color, you should also pinch the bud with your hand and choose the one that feels hard.

Rose cut flowers on display at the Kunming National Flower Show

Hydrangea

Saxifragaceae / Hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla)

The choice of hydrangea should first look at the branches, try to choose the sturdy ones, the larger ones, and the ones that must be fresh. If you find that playing Yan, you should never buy them, because the vase life will not be very long.

Platycodon grandiflorum

Gentiaceae / Platycodon grandiflorum (Eustoma grandiflorum)

Platycodon grandiflorum should first see if the branches are broken or creased, do not choose soft branches, high-quality Platycodon grandiflorum must be hard branches. There are no rotten yellow leaves, no signs of decay at the bottom of the flower path, fresh flowers, no dry buds.

Full of stars

Caryophyllaceae / Gypsophila paniculataLinn.

Now many stars on the market are dyed, choose the stars to dye evenly, the branches are relatively healthy, the flowers are fresh. The full star can be bought back and bottled for a period of time to make dried flowers.

Lily flower

Liliaceae / Lilium browniivar. Viridulum)

When buying lilies, try to choose those that are in bud and can see a little color of the flowers, rather than those whose buds are closed and only turquoise. Observe the freshness of the leaves. If there are yellow leaves, it means that the lily is no longer fresh.

Carnation

Caryophyllaceae / Dianthus caryophyllus

Carnations choose medium-blooming flowers, which are too big for cutting time, too small, too tight, and sometimes difficult to bloom.

African chrysanthemum

Subfamily Tubulinae / Gerbera jamesonii

When buying African chrysanthemum, you should choose those with large bud, complete petals and flower shape, without petal loss, the outer edge of the petals without withering and yellowing, the color of the flowers should be bright, and the stems should be thick and stiff without damage.

Today, Flower fungus introduces to you some common methods of selecting cut flowers. The selection of fresh cut flowers should start from three aspects: flower head, leaf and flower stem: big and full flower head, tender and fresh leaf, sturdy flower stem and sufficient water.

Have you all learned the method of selecting cut flowers? Next time you can try to buy flowers according to the above method, make sure you can buy fresh and beautiful flowers.

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