How do you perserve a bouquet of flowers?

how can you perserve the flowers to where they look pretty but not have to pay much money?

How do you perserve a bouquet of flowers?
easy you get a string and tie it around the ends of the flowers then hang them upside down to dry out but still have their natural and beautiful colors! hope it helped, thatz the way i do it
Reply:The least expensive way is to hang the bouquet upside down in a dark place and let it dry naturally. Then, spray it with an acrylic spray made for dried flowers to keep the petals form falling off. You can also purchase silica gel to use for drying. Place the bouquet carefully in a box with silica gel under the bouquet. Then, carefully pour more silica gel in, taking care to get it in between the petals and around each flower. Cover completely. Clean sand can also be used in place of the silica gel. When dry, spray with the preservative spray
Reply:depends on the flowers, some don't preserve so well. The tried and true way is to hang them upside down in a dark, dry place until they dry. Otherwise, you could press them. Either way, you have to get the moisture out or they'll wilt or rot. If you just want to make them last longer in the water, then take them out every day or two and cut the ends of the stems off at an angle to reopen the veins that draw up water, and drop in a modest amount of aspirin, keep the water fresh. Now, if your lucky, some of your flower stems, or leafy bits might re-root. A Carefully small amount of rerooting formula and fresh water will give you a new plant.





someone above suggested maybe the freezer- Dont. soon as those suckers thaw out your going to have a pile of mush. However, if your storing them for a day or two, the fridge is a good place to stash them.
Reply:have them sit in cold water. if you got them recently and put them into a vase, trim the stems about a quarter or half inch so thats its fresh and then can absorb more water. lastly you can put them into the fridge(maybe freezer, but i'm not sure if that would be too cold) so that it will take a while longer before they wilt.
Reply:I had a bouquet of roses given to me and I just let them run out of water in the vase, they started to dry in the vase. When they were partially dry, I cleaned the vase dried it out and put the bouquet back in intact and they are still good to this day and that was five months ago.
Reply:Put a teaspoon of bleach in the bottom of the vase.





Run the water over the bottom of the stems and trim the bottoms.





Put the flowers in and change water every couple of days.
Reply:You can either freeze them or dry them! Personally I would take a few pictures and call it good! But I am a guy so I am probably missing some stupid sentimental thing! PS...I am pretty sure that mental is part of sentimental for a reason!
Reply:tie them with string at the stems, then hang them upside down from the string in a dark place like a cupboard. leave for 2 weeks or until they're dried
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Reply:Ask a florist. I wouldnt know





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