Flower Preservative Information
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I love to grow thousands of flowers to fill the garden with color. Most of the color comes from the huge punch of the annuals but the perennials are what give the garden its' soul and backbone. You need them all to create depth. Trees and shrubs round things out and create the height to create the backdrop for the rest of the flowers. I underplant my roses with many hundreds of tulips, daffodils, crocus, hyacinths, and freesia to produce color in the beds when the roses are cut to bare sticks in late winter. Witchhazel and several other flowers create color and fragrance in the winter darkness.

I grow the flowers and my loving wife loves to fill the house with bouquets large and small. They bring joy and fragrance to our home. We grow so many flowers that we've never bothered with flower preservatives. However, recently a lady asked me for information on flower preservatives and frankly I was stumped. So on this page I'm going to collect information on the subject and archive it for those of my readers that prefer to use these products. Because of the ephemeral nature of Internet articles I'll archive the information with links back to the source websites. If the link disappeared it's likely the information may have as well.

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