The Trick to Keeping Tulsa Florist Flowers Looking Great

Fresh cut flowers are a fragile item. If they get too cold, too dry or too hot, the time they stay beautiful in a vase or arrangement gets a great deal shorter. Once they come out of the cooler, whether at the standard Tulsa florists’ wholesale supplier, or when your purchase is wrapped up to take home and be sent out on a deliver – the amount of time they remain great looking dwindles just a bit.




The most important thing to know about buying cut flowers is that the fresher they are from the grower, the longer they will last in any home or office. At Flower Express, our roses, blooms and greenery in direct from the growing farm. That’s the freshest cut flowers you can get. As Tulsa flower shops go, you won’t find another one that is a giant walk-in cooler.



Not only does this ensure you are getting the freshest cut flowers possible, it allows customers to walk in and see every flower and greenery spray we have in stock each day. It’s really a lot of fun to be able to see everything you can possible add to your bouquet and mix and match them to get whatever look catches your fancy. Once you take those gorgeous blooms home or arrange for flower delivery, Tulsa area residents can do a few things to prolong the life of any cut flowers.



First, before you put a new bouquet in a vase, be sure to trim the ends of each stem. This allows your blooms to have the ability to take up water best. Use a really sharp knife or scissors. You want a clean, easy cut to avoid bruising the stem tissue or worse, collapsing the veins that allow the uptake of water.



Next, while most Tulsa florists add a packet of flower food in every box or sleeve that goes out the door, some folks think there are even better ways to prolong the life our an arrangement or bouquet. Common tips are to drop an aspirin, a penny, bleach, sugar or Listerine mouthwash into the water. Then there is the changing of water in the vase.



The aspirin, bleach and Listerine remedies are a disaster! The penny trick only keeps petal colors rich, so it’s good to toss one in any way. Sugar does help, but not as much as that flower food your Tulsa florist provides and fresh water. In our next post, you’ll discover what actually works to prolong the beauty of cut flowers.