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*****Cut tips*****
The tips of cut flowers should be chopped off when flowers are fresh and before putting the bunch in the vase.
Use a very sharp knife for this operation.
The cut should be made lenghtwise and obliquely, from the top downwards, so that you will open the water conductive canals.
The cut flowers should be soon put in the vase. Pay attention because leaves shouldn't fall into water.
Never use one side sharp shears, scissors or even pliers. With these tools, in fact, you will break the thin canals bringing water though the stem.
*****Nourish cut flowers*****
1. Give flowers the necessary nourishment. (sugar and other nutritional substances)
2. Keep the water conductive canals free, avoiding their occlusion because of bacteria.
Don't change water in the vase, just fill it up.
Flowers don't like overheated rooms, so they will fade quicklier. Even currents of air harm flowers, above all roses, lilacs, daisies and poinsettias.
By night, all flowers "sleep" in fresh rooms, so keep them between 10 and 12° C.
If a bud fades (or more than one), you can try to save it; just cut the stem, envelop it in some newsprint and put it into the water during all night.
If in the morning flowers haven't "recovered", you will use a radical way out, separating the flower from the stem.
So you will fill a dish with some water and you will put a flower inside it; once arranged with leaves and pebbles, it will turn into an original ornament!
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