16 - Friday, January 27, 1989 ~ North Shore News

LIFES

Never change vase
water for cut tulips

From page 14
Haarlem), Rijnsburg, the Moor
District and in various places in
North Holland.

For tulips that will last a long
time (a week or more) in the vase
at home or the office, select buds
that are just beginning to show
color. Tulips that have already
opened up will have a very short
vas> life. Those still tightly closed
and not yet showing color may not
open well.

To make a fine display, choose a
bunch in which all of the flowers
are at exactly the same stage of
development, have nice, straight
stems and undamaged leaves.

As soon as you get them home,
leave the bunch of tulips wrapped
in paper and stand them in a
bucket of clean water in a cool
location, keeping the paper above
the water line. This enables them
to absorb sufficient water to firm
up the stems.

Then cut a few centimetres
(about 1 in.) from the end of the
stems and fill the vase with water
to which cut flower food has been
added. This nutrition will help
them last about twice as long as
they would otherwise and bloom
more fully.

Never change the vase water. In-
stead, top up the container with
more water to which the food
crystals have been added. Move
the vase to a cool place overnight,
each night, and you can extend
their life even longer.

To strengthen any tulips that
become limp while you have them
in an arrangement, just re-cut the

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stem ends a bit, wrap them snugly
in paper and stand in water in a
cool spot again for a few hours.

Once you have arranged the
tulips, do not rearrange them.
Tulips continue to grow in the
container and thus assume the
shape of the arrangement. If you
try to reposition them, they will
point in every direction except the
one you had in mind.

In addition to tulips, try all

pletion? owner Hany Smil
Olympia Paint in nt Tile is assouated .

with four Olympia Paint ‘ ni Tle ry stores

kinds of other bulb flowers at
home — daffodils, lilies and irises,
for example. (Don’t combine the
daffodils with other cut flowers,
unless you stand them alone in
water for a few hours. This enables
them to release a secretion which
kills other flowers).

Or try potted bulbs — hya-
cinths, scilla, crocus as well as
tulips and daffodils.

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