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Flower Secrets

To help your summer flowering bulbs survive the winter, dust them with medicated baby powder. before storing them in old onion sacks for the winter . This helps them from getting disease and bring out to much.

To hold blossoms longer , spray cut flowers with hair spray to keep in tacked longer.

To make flower in a vase prolong the life of cut flower (except tulips) add a tablespoon of charcoal in the bottom of the vase. Putting a penny in the bottom of a vase of cut tulip will keep them from popping wide open, which causes them to die faster.

In the fall you can remove the faded flowers from bulbs, but the foliage must be left on to provide the bulb with food for next year's flowers. If you cut them they may take up to 2 years before they will bloom again or they may never grow again.

Bulbs due best if you dig them up every 3 to 4 years and separate them . After separating them place bone meal under the soil at the recommended rate . Then replant the bulbs spread out between 2and 6 inches apart as recommended, use extra bulbs else where or give to a friend or place an add in a seed swap like ours or you can place an add in the local paper and watch them go.

For best result with chrysanthemums, divide and transplant every two or 3 year , using the vigorous out side sections of the clump and discarding the old center clump. Also make sure every fall to cover them with mulch extra heavy ,in case you have weather like we do that is not always cold when it is supposed to be . Which they will try to grow in the winter if not kept.

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