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As soon as you add water again, the vase will once again be full of bacteria and your new bouquet will be subjected to the same bacteria that killed the last bouquet. Give your flowers a fresh clean environment free of bacteria and they will last much longer.

While changing the water every other day or so is often just as effective for making flowers last longer, adding those flower food packets that come with packaged flowers are beneficial as well. You can make your own flower food by adding about 1 teaspoon of sugar, 2 teaspoons of lemon juice and a 1 teaspoon of bleach to your vase before adding about a quart of warm tap water. It is worth noting that there are a few flowers that actually do NOT like flower food in the vase.

Some of these are: zinnias, sunflowers and glads. Damaged cells cannot absorb water as effectively as healthy cells. Sharp scissors ensure a clean cut that leaves cells unharmed except the poor few that inevitably get sliced. Tip 1: Replenish the water frequently. Change the water entirely every days. Tip 2: Trim at least a half inch of stem off your flowers before you put them in a vase and each time you change the water.

Tip 3: Keep your flowers away from heat and bright light. Tip 4: Avoid sitting your flowers beside ripening fruit or vegetables, especially bananas and apples. This allows a rapid transfer from farm to shop within hours, if going by plane, says Sylvie Mamias, secretary general of Union Fleurs, the international flower trade association.

Vase life — the length of time flowers stay fresh after reaching the customer — is then usually days, Mamias says. Roses, carnations and chrysanthemums are the most popular blooms. Some Kenyan flowers also come straight to the UK on direct flights from Nairobi, where entire terminals at certain airports are dedicated to flights exporting blooms. One of the reasons behind the increase in flower exports in Africa dates from the s, says Mamias, when an oil crisis increased the cost of heating greenhouses in northern countries.

As a result, production moved south where flowers could be grown with little energy input all year round. For Europe, this meant seeing more flowers imported from Israel and Morocco, and later east Africa, while US buyers developed trade with Latin America.

These new producers had three things in common: areas of high altitude with cool nights, which many flowers benefit from, proximity to the equator for maximum hours of sunlight, and cheaper labour. The change also meant an end to seasonal production and the beginning of a day-a-year international competitive trade. Kenya is particularly important as a source of roses — the country supplies one third of all roses sold in the EU, according to Union Fleurs.

Tambuzi Flower Farm in Kenya grows almost 8 million flowers a year across three sites totalling 22 hectares. Located in the rainy foothills of Mount Kenya, around km miles north of Nairobi, at 1,m above sea level, it exports to 60 countries worldwide, including the UK, Holland, Russia, Australia, the US and China.

The farm is the biggest employer within a 30km Tambuzi grows 80 flower varieties, but specialises in David Austin scented roses.

Roses are chosen from a breeder and trialled on the farm. In the commercial greenhouses, workers monitor the soil pH and organic matter, drain the land, weed and feed the roses. Drip-irrigation transports water directly to each plant, minimising waste. To protect the plants from pests and disease, the flowers are sprayed and predatory mites are released to eat insects such as red spider mites and thrips, which feed on and damage the plants.

Sticky traps are also set to catch pests such as whitefly. The weaker stems are pinched off, leaving only the strongest. At 20 weeks they are harvested by hand, by 67 workers, all of whom are women. The stems are quickly transferred to a cold store and cooled to 4C before being graded, sorted into bunches in the packing house, and returned to the cold store.

From harvest to the end customer in the UK, the process takes three to four days, says Shikuku. Climate change is making it increasingly difficult to plan farming activities, says Shikuku. To help deal with this, the farm harvests rainwater, has installed solar panels, and moved some of its production indoors so it can better control the growing environment. The farm has brought steady employment to an area with few job opportunities.

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