Fresh-Cut Flower Tips

To keep carnations fresh longer, add 1 teaspoon of sugar to their water.

A teaspoon of soap powder or a few drops of Clorox can be added to the water of most arrangements to keep the flowers fresh longer.

If roses have dropped their heads, put stems in two inches of boiling hot water for 15 minutes and they will revive.

Add 1 teaspoon of brown sugar to keep an arrangement of greens fresh.

Either put tulips in a copper container or drop a few pennies into their water.

Always put fresh flowers into lukewarm water.

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