Tips 

Hand tied bouquets

Tip  1
Buy always flowers who look fresh and stand in fresh clean water. Remove damaged leaf and too much of the leaves. Cut of the stems with a sharp knife or cutter.

Tip 2
Harvest flowers from your own garden early in the morning, remove damaged leafs and too much of the leaves. Cut of the stems with a sharp knife. Let the flowers drink a few hours in water with Chrysal before you use them in a bouquet or flower arrangement.

Tip 3
Fill the clean vase with clean cold water and add the proper amount of Chrysal. Top up the vase every day with water included Chrysal.

Tip 4
Do not put flowers in a draught, not in the sun, not too warm, not by ripe fruit. The flowers will grow better and longer.

Tip 5
If flowers show signs of wilting because of lack of water, cut of the stems and wrap them in paper. Put them a few hours in water in a cool location.

Tip 6
To create a nice hand tied bouquet you first clean the flower stems, remove the ugly and too much leaves. Put the stems together and bind them with string. Be sure all stems have the same length below the binding point. 

Tip 7
Cut of the stems of a bouquet  always before you put the bouquet in the water. It is very easy to do this with a sharp cutter.

Tip 8
Remove old flowers from the bouquet. They will cause ethylene damage. Ethylene kills most flowers.

Tip 9
If you want to create a nice hand tied bouquet by your self, reed the practical book Hand tied bouquets, written by Aad van Uffelen, publisher Terra. Read more

Tip 10
Soap Oasis in clean water with Chrysal in it. Your flowers will grow open better and stay longer.

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Last update of this page 16.06.2006