How to care for preserved flower arrangements

If you have received preserved flowers as a gift or you are going to give it, you may be wondering how to take of them in order to keep them beautiful and in great conditions as long as possible. With proper care, preserved flowers can be kept for at least one year and up to three years. The rules of their maintenance are really easy and they do not require a lot of time. Here are some tips how to care of preserved flowers and save their perfect conditions as long as possible. 

What Do you need to do

Keep your preserved flowers in their original packaging 

When you received your flower arrangement, be sure to keep them in their original packaging. Attempting to remove the flowers from the package could destroy them so we highly recommend do not do it. The plastic or paper boxes will protect flowers against drafts, dust and other disturbances that may affect the flowers condition. Simply wipe the boxes of dust and enjoy their beauty long time. 

Сarefully remove dust from the flowers 

If your preserved flowers kept away from the box, you need carefully to brush the dust from them. It is important to do it gently in order do not to disturb the petals too much. As they can become more fragile. 

DO NOT

Put your preserved roses in direct sunlight 

Keep your preserved flowers away from the direct sunlight and windows. Sunlight will expedite the drying process and can discolor your flower petals.

Keep preserved roses in the area of high humidity

Preserved roses should be kept at low humidity and slightly below room temperature. Excessive humidity can take months off of the expected lifespan of your flowers.

Water your flowers

Exposure to water should be completely avoided as it will damage the petals and stems of preserved roses.

Following these simple rules, you will give long lifespan to preserved  flowers and could enjoy their beauty up to three years. 

Preserved Sunflowers from Ecuador

Preserved Sunflowers from Ecuador

Preservation of flowers is not a method available only for roses. You can preserve whole sunflowers of any size by using a number of methods, and in Excellent Flowers we choose the best sunflowers which have grown in our farms in order to convert them in eternal sunflowers.  

After a process elaborated to extend the vase life of the sunflowers and adding “flower food” to their water, the sunflowers will bloom expanding their petals to the maximum. It is just in this moment when we start to use our natural methods to convert these beautiful flowers in natural preserved sunflowers in our labs.

Cut the Stems

Just the heads of the flowers will be preserved through our preservation process. The stems required to be cut and preserved separately.

The process

It is necessary the replacement of all the vegetal fluids and humidity of the flower in order to dry it and replace it with our special recipe of natural products in order to keep the beauty of the flower for more than two years.

We are one f the few Ecuadorian companies which can preserve sunflowers and we export to the whole world one of the most beautiful flowers which will keep their beautiful and radiant color for several years.

Contact us: www.wholesalepreservedroses.com