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With all of the possible diseases that a rose can
pick up,
you would think that anybody would be crazy to even
plant them.
They are such high maintenance flowers that it would
seem to
some to be far too much work just to have a bit of
beauty in
your garden.
As this site has already stated, there are a great
deal of
things that can be done to help prevent diseases and
pests from
damaging your roses. It all seems like so much to do
for flowers
that only have a life span of about 6-10 days. Of
course a
healthy bed of roses will constantly produce new
buds so that
you will rarely even notice anyway.
There is also the problem of wilting and drooping
roses
once they are placed in vases when they are given as
gifts.
Roses look so beautiful in any room that they sit
in. They add
an elegance that is unsurpassed by any other flower.
As beautiful as roses are, they do have a certain
vulnerability that is common for every flower. They
are prone to
sag, droop and wilt after a few days exposure to a
vase. Anybody
would like to preserve that beauty for as long as
possible and
think that its hopeless, but I will show you how you
can save
your roses if this happens to you.
1. Take your roses from the vase.
2. Separate the roses, but keep them emerged in Luke
warm
water as you do it.
3. Make a fresh cut on the stem, again while it
remains
in the water because you don’t want to get air into
the stem.
4. Take each flower, one by one and roll them in
newspaper and close the paper with a rubber band to
keep it from unrolling.
5. Put each rose while still wrapped in the
newspaper in
a sink or tub filled with water and let them soak
for
several hours while still separate.
6. Once they have soaked, unwrap them carefully, and
place them in a vase of fresh warm water.
7. If you want to preserve the health of your roses,
put
some 7up in the water to help prevent any bacteria
that can clog up the stem.
Extra tip: Roses droop for one of two reasons.
Either
they had been cut too early when put into the vase,
or they
may have been out of water too long before putting
them
into the vase.
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