Ideas to Decorate Your Kitchen with Fresh Sunflowers
If you feel like bringing a piece of the garden to your home, the best way to do it is to decorate your kitchen with a fresh sunflower arrangement. Most flowers wilt when they are cut inappropriately or do not get sufficient water. Depending on the type of decoration one chooses, one must decide on picking just the flower or cutting sufficiently long stemmed sunflowers to make them last for a longer time. Also, long-stemmed flowers will help with the vase decorations and other exquisite decorations.
Detailed below are a few ideas on decorating your kitchen with sunflowers:
If one wants to place a sun flower decoration in the middle of the kitchen, especially on the counter or the table it is advisable to go for a floating sunflower decoration. In a floating sunflower decoration, one must pick only the flower and spray them with fresh water. One can then choose a wide-mouthed open bowel or brass vessel to prepare the floating sunflower decoration. Fill the brass vessel with water at least up to half of the container. Now place the sunflowers in the water and watch them float around till the vessel is full of sunflowers. The wider the vessel the better it is to prepare this kind of decoration since lots of flowers can be accumulated.
Floating sunflower decorations are considered to bring in positive energy and spread good vibes into the entire house or area where they are placed!
• If one wants to go in for a vase decoration, it is better to cut sufficiently long-stemmed sunflowers that have fully bloomed. Depending upon the number of flowers that can be contained in the vase ensure that there are two or three different sizes of sunflower stalks. Ensure that a few are relatively shorter, few are of average length, and some very long-stemmed sunflower stalks. This will be effective in preparing a well distributed vase full of sunflowers.
• Cutting the stalks also is an important aspect of preparing flower arrangements. It is 
important to cut flower stalks at an angle and exposes the vascular surface of the stalk to the water into which it would be immersed. This will ensure that the sunflower stalks get maximum water absorption.
• The step in decorating a vase with sunflowers is to fill the vase with sufficient water, to fill in at least one fourth of the vase. Fresh water will ensure that the flowers get some water and moisture to keep them fresh.
• In order to provide some nourishment to the flowers it is advisable to add a teaspoon of sugar into the vase. The sugar will dissolve in water in a short time and this water will help keep the flower stalks nourished for sometime.
• One can start tying or bunching the long stemmed flowers together, placing them in the center of the vase. This can be followed by placing the sunflowers with average length stalks around the central long stemmed flowers followed by the short stalked flowers to fill make the arrangement look full and well rounded.
• Another important aspect to bear in mind while decorating sunflowers in a vase is to 
pick a vase that is not too long and narrow. Sunflower stalks are relatively thick and need a lot of room. One must select a medium-sized vase which has a short but wide neck which is broad enough to accommodate 20-25 flowers.
• Also remember to wash the vase and clean it thoroughly of any dust and fungus before using it again, this is to ensure the decoration lasts longer and remains fresh and smells good!
• To ensure that there is no microbial settlement in the vase, it would be ideal to change the water frequently and regularly. An ideal situation would be to change water everyday.
• In order to keep flowers free of bacteria, it would help immensely to add a few bactericides to the water in the vase. Bactericides are available with florists and advice on using the same could be obtained from expert florists.
These are a few ideas that will help you in decorating your kitchen with sunflowers!
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