Romance in Blooms

Getting the freshest flowers from us is only the first part. Follow these tips and you will have a better chance at keeping your arrangement longer! Below you will find copies of the tags we include with all floral purchases.

How To Care For Your Rose Arrangement

How To Care For Your Fresh Arrangement

How To Care For Your Blooming Plant

How To Care For Your English Garden

How To Care For Your Bulb Garden

How To Care For Your Cut Roses

General Care For Green Plants

How To Care For Your Cacti And Succulent Plants

How To Care For Your Dish Garden

How To Care For Your Poinsettia

 

 

How To Care For Your Rose Arrangement

When you receive your roses, immediately check the water level, adding room temperature water if needed. Always keep the water level high, and always use a floral preservative. Display your roses in a cool location out of direct sun, avoiding excessive heat or cold.

To revive a wilted rose, submerge the entire flower and stem in a tub or tray of water. Keeping the stem under water, cut 2” off of the base. Let the rose soak for 5 to 30 minutes, or until it perks up.

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How To Care For Your Fresh Arrangement

When you receive your fresh arrangement immediately check the water level. Keep the vase full by adding water with floral preservative daily. If floral foam is used, please make sure it is always thoroughly saturated. Display your arrangement in a cool location, avoiding direct sunlight and excessively hot or cold areas. To extend the fresh appearance of your arrangement, remove spent blooms as they go. If you rearrange your flowers, please recut the stems under water on an angle using a sharp knife, then place them in a clean container with warm water and floral preservative.

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How To Care For Your Blooming Plant

Display your blooming plant in a sunny location (but not hot sun). Keep soil moderately moist but don't let the plant stand in water. Avoid excessively hot or cold areas. You may fertilize with a blossom booster fertilizer to prolong blooing time. Be sure to follow the manufacturer's directions.

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How To Care For Your English Garden

Your English Garden will thrive near a sunny window and enjoys moderately moist soil. Each plant is in its own pot, so be sure to water each one. Don't let the plants sit in water, as this causes root rot. Avoid excessively hot or cold areas. You may fertilize your plants with a blossom booster flowering fertilizer. Be sure to follow the manufacturers' directions.

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How To Care For Your Cut Roses

As soon as possible, fill a vase with cool water and floral preservative, remove water tubes and recut stems on an angle with a sharp knife and put in vase. Change water or add fresh water every other day.

To revive a wilted rose, submerge the entire flower and stem in a tub or tray of water. Keeping the stem under water, cut 2” off the bottom. Let the rose soak for 5 to 30 minutes, until it perks up.

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How To Care For Your Bulb Garden

This bulb garden will flower normally under a wide range of light conditions. It prefers moderately moist soil, allowing the soil surface to dry between waterings. Bulb plants do best in cool locations--approximately 60-65 degrees in the daytime.

You can plant these bulbs in your garden. After flowering, keep plants cool and moist. When the stems and leaves are no longer green, cut them off. In mid-spring, plant your bulbs outdoors in a sunny, well drained area. The bulbs may reflower the next spring depending on the size of the bulb and local climatic conditions.

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General Care For Green Plants

Place in a spot that gets medium or diffused sunlight. Keep the soil moist but not soggy, and never let plant sit in water. Most plants prefer average to higher than normal humidity in a house. Misting the plant with a hand water mister will give them the extra humidity they need. You may fertilize using an all-purpose houseplant food. Be sure to follow the manufacturers' instructions.

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How To Care For Your Cacti And Succulent Plants

Display your plant in a sunny location. In winter they prefer a cool, dry area with plenty of sun. Water the plant when the soil is obviously dry.

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How To Care For Your Dish Garden

Your dish garden will thrive in medium sunlight with moderately moist soil. Do not over water. Avoid excessive hot or cold areas.

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How To Care For Your Poinsettia

Display your poinsettia in a room with bright but indirect sunlight, avoiding hot or cold drafts. Allow the soils' surface to dry, then water thoroughly. Do not let plant sit in water.

It has been proven that the poinsettia is not poisonous or toxic, but as with any ornamental plant, keep out of the reach of small children.

To get the plant to rebloom next year, take care of the plant all winter. When the blooms (called bracts) fade, cut plant back to approx. 8 inches. Lightly fertilize once a month. When the outside temperature gets above 50 degrees, move the plant outdoors, first in indirect, then direct light. Cut the stems and branches back twice during the summer. Repot if necessary. Bring the plant indoors in early September to a space that gets six or more hours of direct sunlight. From October 1 to mid-December, the plant must have 14 hours of complete darkness and 10 hours of natural light. The light/dark period is what forces the bracts to change color.

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