Getting Daffodils To Play Well with others
If you ask me what my favorite flower is most of the year I would tell you it is the flowers that are blooming right in front of me. This time of year narcissus are beginning to pop up joyfully everywhere, singing the announcement of Spring’s arrival . Strolling through them as delightful scents of their fresh Spring perfume wafts up to greet you is intoxicating. Their bright joyful colors are so welcome after a long winter. For the most part they are the colors of sunshine , and with the fancier corals, pinks, and orangie peach varieties, they are the color of a soft blazing sunrise that lights up the sky. Did you know that these joyful flowers do not play well with other flowers?
The narcissus emit a sticky jelly like sap when cut that can irritate the skin. Where gloves when harvesting to avoid the sap from getting onto your hands. I find that reaching to the ground level and pinching them off at the base with my fingers gives the longest stems and helps with some of the sap as opposed to snipping them. When placed in a vase with other flowers, this sap leaks out and clogs the stems of the other flowers, preventing them from water uptake, thus significantly shortening their vase life . There is a simple solution to help daffodils play nice with others by conditioning them properly before they are placed in a mixed arrangement. Once cut , place daffodils into a vase of fresh water for several hours (3-6 ish) , to let the sap drain out and stems scab over . They can then be safely arranged with other flowers in a vase with fresh water . Recutting the stems at any point will have to go through this conditioning process again.
As our first “Daffodil Days Club” bouquets are delivered this week, I am so excited for this season to begin. This week they were paired with our lovely Hellebores which are in peak right now. “Daffodil Days” Memberships are now sold out, but there are just 3 spots left for the “Early Spring Bouquet Club” Membership that will start in a just a few weeks! You can click on link below to see all of the details .
Happy Spring Flower Friend!
xo
Shari