How to Make Your Valentine’s Day Flowers Last Longer
When it’s time to clean up your Valentine’s Day flowers!
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Whoever said flowers are a wasteful gift for Valentine’s Day just didn’t know anything about buying and enjoying great flowers — right?! Each year I enjoy my beautiful Teleflora bouquet well into March because I take the extra time to care for my cut flowers. Every flower is different and each one has a different life cycle. While your roses may lose their beauty within the first week or two, the “filler” flowers usually last much longer, and look great even on their own!
Take a look at my bouquet from last year to see how I cared for them long after Valentine’s Day was over. The first photo (Top Left) is how my bouquet looked after the first week. Most people would toss the entire arrangement at this point, but you shouldn’t! There’s a lot of life left in the rest of those flowers! Checkout the photo on the right side — beautiful flowers are still in there!
How to Care for Fresh Valentine’s Day Flowers
The number one tip for making your Valentine’s Day bouquet last longer is to change the water every other day. Then, after the first week, complete the following steps weekly until your bouquet isn’t showing off it’s beauty any longer.
Step 1: Change the water so you aren’t playing with anything slimy. (Skip plant food)
Step 2: Remove all dead flowers and dry filler
Step 3: Fluff and rearrange remaining flowers so it is balanced.
Step 4: change the water one more time and add plant food.
Never thought of just keeping the filler flowers. I usually don’t do plant food either. Thanks for the reminders.
Wow those flowers are still beautiful the second week! Thanks for the tips!
It’s so sad when I have to toss my flowers. Thanks for the tips! I too try to keep anything that still has life to enjoy them longer. I never heard of changing the water every other day though. Makes sense. I’ll be doing that too from now on!
At the end, I tie them together and hang them upside to let them dry. Then I save the ones that look good.
My grandma always cut the edges and added an aspirin as the plant food when prepping cut flowers in a vase. She’d use fresh water each week with new cuts and new aspirin and could get roses to last 3 to 5 weeks sometimes!!! I was always in awe!
I got some pretty roses for V-day. I’m going to follow your tips and see if it helps keep them longer.
Thank you for this tips! Next time I receive flowers I will definitely follow these steps
Good tips to all seasons actually, as I get flowers on birthdays, and other visits
Bright flowers make those gray days of Winter feel better. You definitely want them to last as long as possible.
Good information to have. I’ll keep this in mind.
I really enjoy fresh flowers but don’t love throwing them out after just a few days. These are great tips that I will use next time I have flowers.
Thanks for the tips! It always seems like my flowers die so fast! Valentine’s day will be here before we know it!
Good to know about this, most people will get flowers or give them at least a few times during their life..
Adding plant food is a new tip for me.
All great ideas thank you.
my flowers never last. these are good tips
thank you I will try it .
Thank you for sharing all of these great tips!
Thank you for these great tips
Good tips. it’s really god that both survives: The flower and the relationship….
Excellent tips on keeping cut flowers looking good. (I’d still rather have a plant…)
Awesome tips. I didn’t know you should remove the fillers.
These tips will definitely help.
The vase is gorgeous, especially with the heart around it. Thanks for posting!
Never would have thought to keep the filler flowers. Thanks for sharing. I try to make them last as long as I can
Great tips! I have also heard that cutting the stems at an angle can make them last longer. I love flowers!
Really good to know ty
These are great tips for keeping your flowers longer! I love having fresh flowers and always try to keep them for as long as possible. I will definitely try your steps, thanks for sharing!
Thank you for the tips. Everytime I get flowers they always die and don’t last long.
I hate to see anything die! I have always believed that flower 🌺 💐 arrangements should last longer than two weeks. I knew about changing the darken slimy water, but I have to admit that I added the flower food right away. So these are great tips! I shared on my Facebook page, Twitter, and Pinterest. Thank you for the pictures above! Visuals always help me. I would love to enjoy my bouquets a lot longer than two weeks. Thank you for sharing!
These are such wonderful tips. Flowers are not cheap. It would be great to get them to last longer
These are great tips for all year round.
They are so beautiful, then they begin to subside gradually. I hate to have to throw them out. Thanks for the tips.
The main reason i hate flowers is that they die so fast. will try this!
Good tips! I am one of those people that loves cut flowers in the winter. This will help me make them last longer
I always do this! I have a smallish vase that I use when I’ve trimmed out the dead or wilty bits so my “new” arrangement looks very full 🙂
These are great tips. Thank you.
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Informative article.
Thanks a lot for these great tips!
These are wonderful tips! Thank you
thanks will have to try this I usually keep topping up the water as they seem to suck it up so fast
I will most certainly heed your advice! It always makes me sad to see my flowers go in the trash! Thanks for sharing!
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I’ve always wondered how to make my flowers last longer. Thanks for the great advice!
I will follow these steps next time. Thanks!
Very good tips on keeping the flowers longer.
These are good tips for stretching out the length of the flowers. Thank you!
I always cut the bottom of the flowers (to fit in a vase) at an angle & toss in a couple of regular aspirin. My flowers usually last me a few weeks. Thanks.
Great tips for taking care of this special gift item this love season. Thanks!
great tips! some of these are new to me, thanks!
I used some of your tips today and will some more this week thanks!!
Why should you skip the food part? That’s a new one to me.
To start out with, make sure your husband knows not to pick from the flowers out front. Take a few extra steps back to the actual floral area, where the freshest flowers are. The older ones are out front where folks will grab them first!
Some very helpful tips, thank you
Thanks for the great tips.
thanks for the great tips
This sounds easy enough. I was always told to drop an aspirin in the water. Doesn’t make sense now, lol.
Never thought about the plant food. Thanks
This is great to know, I’ve always wanted my flowers to last longer than they do
These are great tips!! Thank you for sharing!
Great tips! Im definitely not changing my water enough!
Good tips/ I love having flowers in the house