Picking & Conditioning Cut Flowers with Sarah Raven & Arthur Parkinson - Episode 47

The cosiness of Christmas can be gloriously accentuated by a beautiful cut flower arrangement, and with this episode of ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ releasing on Christmas Eve it’s the perfect time to share how to make these flowers last as long as possible.

Right from the picking, through to conditioning and arranging your flowers, Sarah & Arthur’s tips will help you to make the most of your cutting garden throughout the whole year. From searing to sterilising, in some cases these tips will help you to see double the vase life from your colourful collections of cuttings.

In this episode, discover:

• The life you can bring back to your flowers by submerging them in water • Which flowers need bamboo staking to keep them standing proud in a vase • How long to sear flowers based on their stems • A recipe for sugar syrup to extend the transient splash of colour from Sweet Peas • The most effective way to elongate cut flowers’ lifespan, avoiding the ‘pick-plonk’ approach to arranging

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Release date

Lydbog: 23. december 2021