Collection: Cut Flowers

In this collection, we've selected for you some rose varieties that we think will be ideal to make beautiful bouquets or flower compositions in a vase.

Follow Brian's precious tips on how to have cut roses lasting longer in a vase.

Make sure the soil around your rose plant is not too dry; if so, water deeply 1 or 2 days before cutting flowers

Cut the flowers preferably in the morning;

Leave them in a 10L bucket filled with water up to the top, for half a day and in the shade;

Add sugar to keep the flowers fresh longer (from 1/4 to 1/2 cup dissolved in 10L water);

Add 10 drops of bleach to stop bacteria from breeding, also breaking or removing thorns from the roses will extend the life of the flowers;

Then put the cut flowers in a vase filled with water up to the top, and top up the vase with water daily.

Cindy Cross has kindly demonstrated how to make a  beautiful flower arrangement, an easy bunch of flowers, and how to create an Autumnal arrangement