I found this interesting....
Two weeks ago, I did a wedding show.
One of my bouquets included blue hydrangeas that we cut off of one of hydrangea plants.
Before the show, my grade school art teacher, who I had not seen in over 25 years), stopped by my booth and commented that she wanted to take this bouquet home with her.
(She lives 20 miles south of me and that is where the wedding show was located, it is also out of my local delivery area)
At the end of the show, she strolled by and I gazed at the bouquet. I said take it. she accepted. I told her that she is part of that bouquet because she taught me art.
today she came in and said that the bouquet is still beautiful but the roses dried up last week. I asked about the hydrangeas.
She said they are just now starting to get bad.
This is the important part.
This bouquet was arranged in a Oasis Large bouquet holder. It was hydrated only for about an hour or two.
When she accepted the bouquet all I told her was to drizzle water over the oasis every day or so.
The bigger more poignant point.
It appears that hydrangeas will hold up better if you buy an hydrangea plant and then cut the flowers off the plant rather than having a grower cut, box, and ship them to you.
Do any of you have any additional anectodotal evidence of this?
joe
Two weeks ago, I did a wedding show.
One of my bouquets included blue hydrangeas that we cut off of one of hydrangea plants.
Before the show, my grade school art teacher, who I had not seen in over 25 years), stopped by my booth and commented that she wanted to take this bouquet home with her.
(She lives 20 miles south of me and that is where the wedding show was located, it is also out of my local delivery area)
At the end of the show, she strolled by and I gazed at the bouquet. I said take it. she accepted. I told her that she is part of that bouquet because she taught me art.
today she came in and said that the bouquet is still beautiful but the roses dried up last week. I asked about the hydrangeas.
She said they are just now starting to get bad.
This is the important part.
This bouquet was arranged in a Oasis Large bouquet holder. It was hydrated only for about an hour or two.
When she accepted the bouquet all I told her was to drizzle water over the oasis every day or so.
The bigger more poignant point.
It appears that hydrangeas will hold up better if you buy an hydrangea plant and then cut the flowers off the plant rather than having a grower cut, box, and ship them to you.
Do any of you have any additional anectodotal evidence of this?
joe
