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Summary: How to clean flowers for making a table floral centerpiece; get professional tips and advice from an expert on making your own floral arrangements in this free instructional video.
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Susan Paxton Susan Paxton is the owner and operator of the Hurricane Flower Market in Hurricane, Utah. She has spent many years doing various crafts and flower arranging. ... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi, I'm Susan Paxton on behalf of Expert Village. We're here today making a center piece for our dining room table. One of the things that we need to do is clean the flowers. Now this is called a Puruvian Lily or autra maria. And the leaves turn brown very quickly. So we try to remove all the leaves from the flowers and so that they don't, so that we only have the flowers left. And that way your center piece will look nicer longer. If you leave the leaves on the leaves will turn dark before the flowers ever fade. So you want to remove all the little flowers, I mean all of the little leaves. Now after we've taken off all the leaves. Now we're going to cut the flowers loose from the stem. And I'm only going to take the flowers and I'm going to poke them into our center piece. Now these are not very open, but these Puruvian Lily's open up so beautifully and add so much color and texture to our flower arrangement that we're just going to put them as many places as we can. So that when they open they will be big an beautiful. A few more of those and we should be ready to add other flowers.
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