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Roberta's Tip: Cutting Garden Flowers
Mar 31, 2008

Never cut more than half the stem length from your plants. This keeps the remaining plants strong. Remove leaves from the bottom area of the cut stem and immediately place it into a vase of water. Also, cut in early morning rather than in hot mid-day. You’ll be amazed at how well your home grown flowers do compared to store bought.

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Posted by Garden Expert Mar 31, 2008 11:37 PM EDT
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Daffodils can be cut for a bouquet and put separately into a vase. If daffodils are placed with other long stemmed flowers, the sap from the daffodil will kill the other flowers in the vase. One way to prevent this is to allow the daffodil stem bottom to seal off naturally by placing them inside a separate vase of water for several hours and then transferring the daffodils to a vase with other plants or sear it with the top of a candle flame to prevent sap leakage into the water.
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JustJazzmom
Apr 1, 2008 12:17 PM
The picture that you show is of the hybrid lilly. how do I keep them reblooming all summer long.
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alexandria3
Apr 9, 2009 8:47 AM