Hydrangea wilting in a vase: how to revive it in an hour
WTF! What The Flowers florists · Dnipro
A hydrangea drinks through its bloom, not only through the stem. The trick that revives a drooping bouquet, plus care rules from WTF! Dnipro florists.
The hydrangea is the only flower in a bouquet that drinks not just through its stem but through the whole bloom. That single trait explains both its main weakness and the way to rescue it.
If the bouquet droops a few hours after delivery, the cause is almost always an air lock: air entered the stem and cut off the water supply. It looks alarming, the whole head collapses, but it is fixable within an hour.
Fill a basin or sink with cool water and submerge the bloom completely, head and all. The stem should be under water too. Twenty or thirty minutes later the hydrangea drinks through its petals and lifts back up. The trick looks odd but it is standard practice in any flower studio.
Then cut the stem at an angle and split the tip with a knife by about a centimetre to increase the absorbing surface. Use a tall vase and plenty of water, at least halfway up the stem: a hydrangea drinks more than anything else in the bouquet.
Change the water daily, this is the case where every other day is not enough. Mist the bloom morning and evening, hydrangeas like humid air and suffer near air conditioning and radiators.
Cared for this way a hydrangea lasts seven to twelve days, and after that you can dry it: leave the bouquet in the vase and simply stop topping up the water, the bloom dries out and keeps its shape for months. See availability in the hydrangea catalogue.
