Spring Flower Jar Arrangement | Conditioning Spring Flowers

Growing A Cut Flower Garden, Zone 8b, Scotland.
In todays video I am making a spring flower arrangement with foliage from the garden, a variety of flowers including tulips, narcissi, muscari, fritillaria and Lunaria (honesty). We look at the best foliage in the garden to use in early May including spiraea bridal wreath, raspberry leaf foliage and symphoricarpos (snowberry). I talk about how I condition these and then we make up a jar arrangement for the garden gate stall.
Tulips used in this arrangement:
Table Dance
Honeymoon
Pretty Love
Bellsong
Narcissi used in this arrangement:
Bridal Crown and Winston Churchill
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[@Tea_and_thyme_2012]

Absolutely beautiful arrangements.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you so much. It’s been lovely working with a few new varieties of tulips this year as well as the old favourites.

[@cindynicholson372]

Lovely. Thanks, Catherine.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks Cindy, have a nice weekend x

[@chambersjane50]

Stunning

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks so much 😊

[@jeannet9592]

Such a full and beautiful arrangement! I can’t have enough tulips and daffodils!!

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Me too, it’s such a lovely time of year when they all come back out. I think another week here and that will be them all finished for the season. I can see the buds on the alliums so I don’t think they will be far away now x

[@rosebud447]

Love the colours! Beautiful flowers 💕

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you so much 😊

[@suebar5177]

You’re so talented…beautiful!

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you so much Sue 😊 x

[@gsuslivs]

Hello from New Zealand. Ive just discovered your channel tonight. Last week i thought i purchased enough tulips... but after watching this video. I think i need more ;) Im off to the stores again tomorrow

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hi, thanks so much for watching from New Zealand and I hope you have just enjoyed a flower filled summer. You can never have too many tulips!! So difficult to know when to stop buying! When is the ideal time to get them in the ground in New Zealand now you are heading towards winter? I usually plant mine in November here.

[@gsuslivs]

Its recommended we plant from March to June. I usually chill mine 1st May and plant 1st June. But our suppliers have been very slow delivering our orders so im yet to get my bulk lot. So have made do with ones ive found in the stores. Just so i dont get left with planting very late ones when they finally arrive.

[@wildbirdfarm]

Beautiful arrangement! I enjoyed watching your process 💐

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks so much. It’s been lovely having the tulips and narcissi back the last few weeks to work with. Another week and I think that will be them for another year x

[@sallyazzato3481]

So pretty!

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you so much 😊

[@andreap22]

Such a beautiful jar arrangement. Thank you for sharing. Does the cow parsley need any special condition? In my experience it floped over sometimes. Best greetings from Germany Andrea

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you for watching 😊 Anything like cow parsley, ravenswing and ammi you need to harvest when flowers at least 3/4 out so that it doesn’t wilt. You can just condition it when cut in a bucket of water for several hours or ideally overnight x

[@gladysmcconnell6822]

Beautiful arrangements. Unfortunately my daffodils & narsissi are finished, so not much blooming at the minute

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks for watching Gladys, my narcissi are just coming to an end now too, just the pheasants eye to come out this week. It’s always tricky to get things to bloom in that May gap after the narcissi and before the annuals get going.

[@newjerseygarden]

I love the white fringed tulips and just noticed the honesty flower. It reminds me a little of phlox. Do you grow it from seed or is it a wildflower?

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

The white fringed tulips are fantastic. The honesty I grow from seed each year as a biennial. I will be starting off those seeds this week for flowers next spring.

[@Chris_Senpais_Mitt]

Great vid again Catherine. If you condition foliage stems overnight and they don’t wilt, do you think they are safe to use in arrangements after that?

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you, yes once they have conditioned overnight and are looking strong with no apparent wilting they will be great to use in arrangements. If stems are wilting you can also trying popping the stem ends in a few cm Boiling water for 30 seconds and then back into their cool water in a bucket to condition for a few hours and that often helps with stems prone to wilting.

[@erperry2013]

we have snowberry, a native plant here growing wild in BC canada and i love it! however after cutting, slitting the stems, conditioning overnight it always wilts after placement. what might i do différently?

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hello, thanks so much for watching. Snowberry for me I don’t cut from when it’s newly in growth as it tends to wilt then but when slightly more mature fine for me after slitting the stem and conditioning in cool water overnight. It might help to sear the stems. Pop the bottom couple of cm in boiling water for 30 seconds and then put back into your bucket of cool water for overnight conditioning. This often helps with stems prone to wilting.

[@erperry2013]

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm i will try it! yes i like the new growth for its rosy flushes. sigh. 😅