Garden Flowers for Arrangements

Conditioning Flowers

• Use Clean buckets and vases

• Use clean sharp clippers

• Harvest in the coolest parts of the day

• Take a bucket of water with you into the garden

• Harvest at the proper stage

• Remove leaves on stems

• Cut at 45-degree angle to increase surface area for water absorption

• Make a cut up the stem 1 inch from the bottom on woody stems

• Put hydrangea stems in 3 inches of very hot water and count to 30, then put in cold water up to their heads. Or put the end of the stem in alum and then in cold water.

Recipe for floral preservative

• 1 liter Water

• 1 tsp. Bleach

• 1 tsp sugar

• 2 tsp. lemon or lime juice

• Add approximately 1- 2 Tbsps. to each liter of water

Flowers for a Cutting Garden

• Aster

• Astrantia

• Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia Hirta)

• Blazing Star (Liatris)

• Bulbs

• Calla lilies

• Celosia

• Coneflower (Echinacea)

• Cosmos

• Daffodil

• Dahlia

• Delphinium

• Gladiola

• Hydrangea

• Hellebore

• Iris

• Ornamental Onion (allium)

• Peony

• Ranunculus

• Rose

• Salvia

• Shasta Daisy

• Solomon Seal

• Sunflower

• Sweet pea

• Tulip

• Yarrow

• Zinnia