{"id":13005,"date":"2015-02-24T11:55:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T18:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13005"},"modified":"2015-02-22T03:13:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T10:13:40","slug":"gardening-after-the-flower-arrangers-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/gardening-after-the-flower-arrangers-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden  After the Flower Arranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the flower arranger has taken the scissors and snippers to the plants in the garden I recommend you give your plants a thankyou! Flowers and shrubs will respond again if they are treated properly.<\/p>\n<h2>Help Plants After the Flower Arrangers Visit<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Tidy up the plants from a gardeners point of view. Prune again to reshape shrubs and encourage new young growth. Open up the centre of plants to let in air and light.<\/li>\n<li>Water, mulch and feed the woody plants.<\/li>\n<li>Water in a liquid feed and or foliar feed after flowers have been cropped to perk up the plants for a further flush.<\/li>\n<li>If the plant is exhausted or unlikely to provide a second crop, dig it out and turn it into compost asap.<\/li>\n<li>Propagate new plants of favoured selections, the flower arranger is bound to return.<\/li>\n<li>Consider deadheading all the flowers that were not up to the job for the flower arranger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Flower Arrangement by theclyde, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theclyde\/4242607259\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4018\/4242607259_278301c0d7.jpg\" alt=\"Flower Arrangement\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips for Selecting Woody Plants<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chose plants everlasting plants or thoses that grow rapidly and regrow even after severe and frequent pruning.<\/li>\n<li>Select plants that are harvestable early in life.<\/li>\n<li>Pick plants that grow numerous stems borne over a long period of time.<\/li>\n<li>Desirable features include stems at least 18&#8243; long, retention of flowers, berries and foliage with a good vase life.<\/li>\n<li>Boxwood, dogwood, forsythia, Eucalyptus, holly, hydrangea, jasmine, lilac, pussy willow, and corkscrew willow have long been popular in the floral trade.<\/li>\n<li>For woody stemmed flowers increase the surface in contact with the water by cutting on a slant or crushing with a hammer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Flower Arrangement by dannnnnnny, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dannnnny\/2231120459\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2087\/2231120459_6f21606d1c.jpg\" alt=\"Flower Arrangement\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Credits<\/strong><br \/>\nFlower Arrangement by lrargerich CC BY 2.0<br \/>\nFlower Arrangement by theclyde CC BY-NC 2.0<br \/>\nFlower Arrangement by dannnnnnny CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the flower arranger has taken the scissors and snippers to the plants in the garden I recommend you give your plants a thankyou! Flowers and shrubs will respond again if they are treated properly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}