Cut flowers, what's your favorite?

[claudine]

My favourites are roses. Big, wonderful, red roses from my boyfriend - some of them stay for two weeks if I change their water regularly. It's good to add a little bit of salt to it.
And I love tulips!!! When I have them in my room, everything looks so cheerful

 

[Jed]

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It’s a tried-and-true way to keep roses and other cut flowers fresh longer: Put a crushed aspirin in the water before adding your flowers. Other household items that you can put in the water to extend the life of your flower arrangements include: a multivitamin, a teaspoon of sugar, a pinch of salt and baking soda, and even a copper penny. Also, don’t forget to change the vase water every few days.

A penny sounds interesting. I guess copper leaches particles that can become antibacterial and antifungal compounds. It no doubt will give off copper chlorides with the chlorine they add to water plus oxides.
A great preservative for wood and probably flowers.

 

[Xiensky]

I just love the rosal coz it really really smells nice. I love African daisies too coz of their vibrant colors.

 

[claudine]

African daisies look really pretty!

Personally, I'm more and more obsessed with tulips, just look at these:

 

[FlowerLady]

My favorite will always be oriental lilies! They smell so wonderful and last such a long time if you remember to keep changing the water and trimming the stems. White lilies smell the best, but the pink ones are wonderful as well.

 

[claudine]

Flowerlady, oriental lilies are very pretty.
You know what else I love? Lilac. A big bouquet of lilac can make any room look lovely and very romantic. What is also very important, the smell of it is just heavenly.
Aren't these pictures beautiful:

 

[VirtuallyOpinionated]

Mini-Carns are my favorite hearty flower. But I LOVE LOVE LOVE bulb plants. Especially freesia and hyacinth. Their fragrances are heavenly! I have several aqua-vases, for growing hyacinth without soil. (Sick friend couldn't have soil, but loved living plants) I would grow and rotate them for her. After she passed, I took one out to the cemetary. Filled up the flower holder with water, and dropped the un-vased hyacinth down into the submerged holder bulb and all. That thing lasted a looooong time.

 

[Rosyrain]

In the spring I like to have a full vase of tulips sitting around. I grew up in a Dutch community and come spring, there are fields of tulips miles long. They have made an entire festival surrounding the harvest. Tulips remind me of home.

 

[Pat]

In my garden I have a rose bush that I will cut for blooms in the house. We do not have any other flowers in the yard at this time. I would like a snow ball plant to have cuttings for the house.

 

[Treeca86]

I love cut Roses, Stargazers, Stock, Caspia, Carnations, Status, Bells of Ireland, Irises, and Dahlias. I love all flowers, really. I used to be a florist and came in contact with many, and loved them all.

 

[evelynmcgregor]

I love daffodils and tulips in a vase. They come in such a variety of colors and blossom styles. Plus I love the smell of tulips.

 

[MICHELLE K]

I really like cala lilies, but don't grow them. I think this will be a great flower to grow next season. I also read that instead of spraying the lawn with mosquito spay, plant the mosquito repellent plants such as Citronella grass, Catmint, Rosemary, Basil, Lavender, and Sented Geraniums. This is what I am looking for. I don't like bees but love them in my garden, lol.

 

[claudine]

Evelynmcgregor - I love the smell of tulips too, because it's very delicate and sweet. Breathing it puts me in a good mood. Tulips always make me think about my boyfriend, because he gives me them often

 

[kammy]

I just love seeing a vase sitting on the center of my table fill with roses or ginger lilly...it brings a certain life to my space...they not only beautify my home but also leave it smelling real great..i just love the aroma of these flowers.

 

[claudine]

I've never smelled ginger lillies, but I love roses and I completely agree that a vase full of them makes a wonderful home decoration. Roses are the most beautiful flowers in the whole world