To keep cut flowers fresh longer, we have put together 6 interesting tips for you. The timing of the cutting is important.
So that cut flowers stay fresh longer, you have to pay attention to a few things. The timing of the flower cut in your own garden is important so that the flowers last a particularly long time in the vase.
- The flowers should never be cut in the hot midday sun, as the flower stalks are quickly exposed to a lack of water, which shortens the life of the flowers.
- It is also important that the flowers are already slightly open when you cut them, because with a few exceptions, buds will no longer develop into flowers in the vase.
- Daisy plants in particular should be cut in the morning hours. These include both the daisy and the sunflower.
- The other summer flowers prefer to be cut in the evening.
- If the plants are still dry from the summer heat, they are first watered vigorously and they are allowed to wait until they are cut so that they can optimally absorb the irrigation water.
- The leaves that are directly under the flower stalk should always be removed, as they provide a breeding ground for putrefactive bacteria in the vase.
Particularly beautiful summer flowers for cutting and flowering in the vase are the bellflowers, marigolds, lady's-eyes, cosmos flowers, annual daisies, summer asters and cornflowers. Annual delphiniums, mug m alts, gypsophila and sunflowers, as well as levkojen, coneflowers and zinnias are beautiful garden flowers as grateful vase bloomers.