Being that some of you will be getting holiday bouquets as gifts or placing some out for holiday decor, I thought we’d have a little refresher about how to keep flowers looking their best.

Winter Wonderland from Organic Bouquet

Flower food from an actual flower shop works the best for keeping blooms fresh for longer amounts of time. Tricks like a penny, changing the water, sugar, bleach, and so on are tricks many talk about and when I worked at a nursery we tried all of them but actual flower food works the best.
Start clean – dirty or moldy containers or vases …read more

The best thing about having your own flower garden is having fresh bouquets on all your tables and window sills. BUT you don’t want wilting, icky bouquets. You want your fresh flowers to last as long as possible. While working in a wholesale flower shop, I gathered some decent cut flower tips…

Only pick flowers right before placing them in a vase: At the flower shop I worked with we considered the lifespan of picked flowers super short; as in under a week. If roses didn’t sell within a week, we’d send them back to the farm for compost. Flowers after …read more