Drooping heads? Keep your tulips fresh with these 5 quick tips
15.2.2024
Translation: machine translated
The joy of a new bouquet is often short-lived: the flowers quickly droop. To prevent this, all you need is a needle.
The needle trick
The reason: When tulips grow, they pump their cells full of water. If you puncture the stem, you inhibit their growth as they are less able to supply themselves with water. This prevents them from shooting upwards and quickly drooping their flowers.
You can do even more to keep your tulip bouquet looking pretty and fresh for longer. The following tips will certainly help:
Cut correctly and shorten regularly
Remove the leaves
You should remove the lower leaves from the individual flowers. This keeps the flower water fresh for longer. In addition, the tulip will then use the water mainly for flowering instead of having to feed lots of leaves.
Clean vase
Cool location
Tulips should not be placed near a heater or in sunlight - they don't like that at all. You should also avoid draughts. At night, you can move the bouquet to a cool location: This will also slow down growth.
By the way: You can also order tulips in our shop. The bouquets from Rutishauser Blumen come from Switzerland and consist of 14 individual flowers each.
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