Your cut flowers will live longer if some simple steps are taken :
1. Display your flowers in a COOL location AWAY FROM DIRECT SUNLIGHT and drafts.Smoke from cigarettes, and ripening fruit contain harmful gases that will shorten your flowers vase life.
2. Cut your flower stems every couple days and place the flowers in clean room temperature water with flower food mixed into the water.If no preservative is available you can use a our flower food home recipe.
(Water containing measurable amounts of salt will kill your flowers and should be avoided, water from homes with a soft water system is not suitable for your fresh flowers.)

Your fresh cut flower stems from Flower Magik should look nice and clean.	After a day or two the stems will start to brown, keep your flowers living longer by cutting them and changing the water.	Rotting leaves and debris in your vase arrangement are a major factor in the vase life of your flowers. Remove all leaves and debris from the water and flower stems.

Premature Cut Flower Dying
The primary cause of all of your flowers dying at once is "flower shock" which is extreme temperature fluctuations from cold to hot (from a cool room too a hot car interior) or a high heat room temperatures ( 70+ degrees) display environment. Avoid placing your flowers under warm air drafts. Air conditioned offices normally cooled during the day are often turned off at night, the very warm conditions are enough to shorten and even kill your flowers overnight during the summertime. Single flowers with a dropping head is a symptom of the flower head not getting water (see instructions for cutting your flowers) Smoke from cigarettes and ripening fruit contain harmful gases that will affect your flowers vase life.

Flower Food Helps
The vase life of your flowers can be increased by 30 to 50 percent if floral preservative or "flower food" is used in your vase arrangement water. Flower food will keep your roses in good condition much longer.See our home recipe for flower food.

Cutting Your Flowers

Step 1. Cut the flowers in your vase arrangement by grabbing all the flowers firmly with one hand or both hands while someone else cuts each flower stem with shears. Flowers in vase arrangements should be should have the stems cut every couple of days.

Step 2. Place the arrangement back in the vase with fresh water and floral preservative. (Mix a floral preservative in room temperature water. Be sure to mix according to manufacturer's instructions, If no preservative is available you can use a our flower food home recipe. If you have some extra preservative solution, save it in a specially marked container to add to your flowers later.)

Step 3. Repeat these steps in a day or two.

BASKET AND OTHER CONTAINER ARRANGEMENTS 
Flowers in basket arrangements and other container arrangements may be arranged in floral foam. Care of flowers in these types of arrangements is simply to make sure that the floral foam is saturated with water. If possible mix a flower preservative into the water of your arrangement. If no flower preservative is use our flower food recipe (see below).

Flower Food Recipe

1 teaspoon of bleach
1 teaspoon of vinegar
2 teaspoons of sugar
1 liter of room temperature water
Be sure to label container "flower food"

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