Before you buy some flowers in floral market, you need to know about how to maintain them to keep them bloom for longer time. Here are some tips on how to maintain some flower breeds. The tips on how to preserve lily 1. You need to disperse the branches of lily to make them be able to breathe. Cut off the part 3-5 centimeters up from the bottom of their stems and put the trimmed lily into a vase with fresh water. The leaves underwater should be removed. 2. Adding some bleaching water or preservative can prolong the florescence of lily. 3. If your lily blooms in advance, you can put it into a vase with warm water. 4. Lily is sensitive to ethylene, thus you should keep them away from ripe fruit, incense and cigarette. The tips on how to maintain roses 1. To prevent the roses from perishing too early, you can aslant cut off a part of its stem. Using newspaper to wrap them up, and then immerse them into water to make them absorb water. 2. If a rose starts to wither, you can cut off the bottom of its stem in warm water. After that, you put it into preservation solution that has PH value 3. 5-4. 5. It will recover soon. 3. When you clear up your roses, you can remove the outer loose petals of your roses, and also remove the thorns and leaves underwater. To prevent bacteria infection, you should use bleaching water or preservative to make their life longer. 4. Roses are sensitive to Ethylene, thus you should keep them away from ripe fruit, incense and cigarette to prevent them from withering too early. The tips on how to maintain carnation 1 sympathy flowers. Remove the leaves under water line and aslant cut off the base of the flowers. Put them into water and make the flowers and branches be able to breathe normally. 2. You can't spray water to your carnation to prevent them form turning rotten. 3. Carnation is sensitive to Ethylene, thus you should keep them away from ripe fruit, incense and cigarette. 4. If you want your carnation to bloom earlier, you can trim their stems before put them into 20-24 Celsius degree warm preservation solution. The tip on how to maintain gerbera 1. Aslant cut their base and put them into water. It will be better, if you add some preservative into the water. 2. Please don't directly spray water to the flowers to prevent them form growing mold. 3. When you put gerbera into a vase, you should avoid making the base of their stems directly touch the bottom of the vase, which can help absorb water and avoid bacteria infection. The tips on how to maintain gladiola 1. You should place them upright; otherwise the stems of gladiola will bend easily. 2. Re-trim their stem and put them into water to absorb water. The water should not contain chlorine, otherwise their leaves will wither. 3. Removing the little flower buds at the top of the flower can reduce the curve of the tip and promote the blooming of other flower buds. 4. For the flowers that have ever been stored in icebox, you had better put them into water containing preservative. In this way, they will present better blossom effect and they will have longer florescence. www. flowersofchina. com is a site that can help you send flowers to China sympathy flowers. It offers great selections of gift baskets for all occasions and sentiments. Finding your perfect gift for holidays, birthdays, get well wishes, congratulations, sympathy, or corporate events is just a few clicks away.