Flower Care in Winter
The first step in flower care during the winter months is to keep the temperature constant in the home, office, workplace, etc. where our plants are located.
If we close the office and workplace in the evening, we should definitely leave a heater on for our flowers. When we open the windows to ventilate our environment in winter, we should make sure that our flower is not in front of the window.
We must remember that all flowers are damaged when affected by air currents.
In winter, we should not give our flowers cold water from the tap.
Like every human being, every plant gets cold in the cold and must be protected from the cold.
We should clean the leaves of our plant once a month with a clean sponge. This cleaning will help open the pores in the leaves.
We should tie the pot of our plant with a bag from the closest place to the soil and wash our plant with a slow flowing water.
This washing helps to remove the dust that accumulates on the leaves and stem over the course of a year during the summer months and to open the pores.
It is not applied to plants with flowers on them, but can be applied after they have shed their flowers.
Flower Care in Summer
During the summer months, which are favorable for pruning, we can prune the branches of our flower that have elongated or that we want to shape. We should cover the ends of the pruned branches with a paste to prevent them from getting air. We should change the soil and pot in our potted flowers that grow too much in summer. These changes both accelerate the development of the plant and minimize the degradation of the plant.
While changing the soil, we should take care not to damage the roots of our flower and make sure that the soil we choose is of good quality. We should take care to change the flower pot in the summer months.
There are 2 points to be considered when changing the pot. The first point is that the pot we will change should be one size larger than the previous pot. The other point is that there must be a hole under the pot. For repotting, our plant needs to show a lot of development.
General Flower Care
We can understand our plant's need for water by dipping our finger about 2 cm into the soil.
We should always be careful to use the same measure when watering our plant.
Every plant is affected by air currents. We should minimize this so that our flower does not turn yellow.
The quality of the water we will give to our plant is also very important.
Quality and lime-free water minimizes the formation of bacteria in the soil of our plant and prolongs the life of the plant.
Spraying in Flower Care
We should remove plants that are infested with lice, insects or cankerworms from other flowers in their environment.
During spraying, we should wear gloves on our hands and, if necessary, a mask over our mouths.
If there are small children where the sprayed plant is located, we should prevent them from entering the environment of the flowers.
It would be better to take our diseased flowers to their old place after completing the healing process.
How to Care for Flowers in a Vase
First of all, we should make sure that the flowers we buy from the florist are fresh.
Before putting the flowers we buy from the florist in the vase, we should clean them by plucking the leaves at the bottom.
Before putting them in the vase, we should cut the stems of the flowers about 2 cm with the help of a pair of scissors so that they can absorb water better.
In summer, we should put the flowers in cold water and in winter we should put them in water from the tap.
If the arrangement we buy from the florist is made on a sponge (oasis), adding water will prolong the life of the flowers.
We should place all the flowers we buy from florists in a place out of the sun and away from drafts.
We should make sure that the vases we put the flowers in are usually stone vases that will keep the water cold.
We should change the water of the flowers every day if possible.
If we are going to pick flowers from our garden, we should do it early in the morning.
In order for the cut flowers we will buy from the florist to last longer, we should make sure that the stems are not blackened and rotten before we buy them.
