Refrigerated Roses (was Digest # somethingorother)

On Thu, 22 May 2003 23:01:03 -0500, some mardy inna cardy wrote:

>Subject: Re: perennials DIGEST V3 #147
>
>Actually Melis, that's quite brilliant!  One of those "I should have thought
>of it" ideas.  However, with my two teenage boys in the house, the flowers
>might be eaten!

Oh I can fix that, Monica. Just tell them the Victorians used to eat
rose jelly and candied roses and all sorts of silly confections but
stopped because they discovered it caused acne (or supply your own
teenaged nightmare scenario). 

I don't have kids, only preternaturally wise cats who haven't figured
out how to open the fridge (YET,thank god, but it could happen any
day). I have plenty of strategies to keep cats out of flower
arrangements including stuffing them in the fridge (flowers, not
cats--though that *is* a thought).

Another one I forgot to mention--keeping flowers fresh, not
anti-cat-strategies--is simply to change the water every day and
remove anything that's rotting. That fits with the other poster's
advice about keeping down bacteria. It also means if your cat stuffs
his head into the bouquet, upends it and then races through the house
strewing water and flowers in his wake, at least it's *fresh* water.

erm . . . not that that's ever happened to me or anything.

Melis

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