Garden-fresh flowers can bring pride to your home and brighten up the place. Whether you pick a large arrangement of flowers or few ones with long stems or a single bloom, it will sparkle up your home. You can set them in different kinds of vases or bowls at different places of a room – your living area, bedroom, kitchen or guest room. If you can spare few minutes from your busy morning schedule in floral arrangements, it can be the most satisfying way to start your day with positive energy. This activity with personal touch can bring out the creativity in you.

So, take some time to pick up some fresh flowers and keep your place beautiful and welcoming. Make your home sweet home with pretty flowers. Take special care of them with some easy to do tips so that they bloom for a longer time.

Keep them in a cool and dry place of your house that is away from direct heat and light of the sun. They should be placed afar from open windows too.

The size of the vase should be appropriate to the number and the size of the flowers. Never stuff the vase with more than its capacity. There should be sufficient space for every stem to get sunken fully in water.

Clean the vase daily with hot soapy water. Refill it with fresh water every day.

Allow fresh tissues of the stems to absorb water more efficiently by trimming off a half inch of its bottom at a 45 degree angle every two days at the time of changing the water. Use sharp scissors to cut it unscathed. You can add few drops of vodka with a teaspoon of sugar in the water to persist the bloom of the flowers.

If some flowers in your bouquet have not opened full, dip their stems in warm water for two minutes and transfer them in cold water letting them to rest there for half an hour. This process will open them up to their maximum without hurting the delicate petals.  

After bringing flowers home, check them thoroughly. If you find some drooping petals and leaves, remove them carefully and make them look flawless. Also remove the leaves from the stem that has to be submerged in water to keep water more clean and clear for long.

Keep flowers away from ripening fruits and vegetables as they release a gas that can make the flowers to die in a short span.

Visit a flourist once in a while. Pick your choicest flowers. Choose the ones that are firm and not mushy. Celebrate your life everyday by bringing fresh flowers home.