It’s Feb­ru­ary and we are start­ing to see tons of Daf­fodils at the mar­ket and bloom­ing in our gar­dens at home. If you are going to work with Daf­fodils in your cut flower arrange­ments, be sure read this blog for Best Results!

Prob­lem: All bulb flow­ers in the nar­cis­sus fam­i­ly (e.g. Daf­fodils, jon­quils) exude a sap that can clog stems of oth­er flow­ers if they are not con­di­tioned properly.

Solu­tion: If you do the fol­low­ing steps, you can arrange Daf­fodils with oth­er flowers:

    • As will all bulb flow­ers, the tem­per­a­ture of the con­di­tion­ing water should be cool and not warm (unless you want the flow­ers to open quickly)

 

    • Use pro­fes­sion­al flo­ral food for best results and cut the stems at least ½ inch before plac­ing them in a clean con­tain­er with the cool water and prop­er amount of flo­ral food (fol­low manufacturer’s instructions)

 

    • Con­di­tion the Daf­fodils for at least SIX hours before arrang­ing them

 

    • Do NOT re-cut the stems after con­di­tion­ing before you put them in the final arrange­ment or the sap will leak out again and hurt the oth­er flowers

 

    • Bulb flow­ers pre­fer shal­low water; if they are placed in deep water, the stems can get water logged and shriv­el up and the petals will get papery

 

  • For best results – only mix nar­cis­sus flow­ers with oth­er types of flow­ers in flo­ral foam arrange­ments and not in vase arrange­ments to les­son the chance of the sap get­ting into the vase water