- Unwrap the fresh cut flowers.
- Fill a clean vase with lukewarm water.
- Add flower food to the water.
- Stir the water until the flower food dissolves.
- Remove the leaves from the part of the stems that will be under water.
- Cut one of the stems at an angle.
- Quickly put the stem in water right after cutting it.
- Continue cutting the stems at and angle and quickly putting them in water until all have been cut and put in the vase.
- Arrange the flowers how you like them.
- Put your flowers in a place that is away from direct sunlight, microwaves, refrigerators, televisions, heating and cooling vents - anything that would heat or chill the flowers.
Every day after bringing the flowers home:
- Hold all of the flowers together in your hand.
- Take all of the flowers out of the vase.
- Put a rubber band around the stems to keep the flowers in place.
- Lay the flowers down.
- Empty the old water out of the vase.
- Fill the vase with fresh, lukewarm water.
- Put flower food in the water.
- Stir the flower food until it dissolves.
- Pick up the flowers.
- Cut the stems of the flowers at an angle just above the last place they were cut.
- Take the rubber band off of the stems
- Put the flowers back in the water.