California Gardening: Flowers from Yard to Vase - CA series, 0 by soilsandup

soilsandup wrote:
Had just a little time this morning for the arrangement so did not do anything fancy. Here are the 4 of the dahlias. Fool's gold is a lot bigger and did not go well with the others so I left it out. One trick I learned is after cutting the dahlia stems, is to put them in about 2-3 inches of boiling water and leave them there until the water cools. That is supposed to extend the life of the blooms. This is the first time I tried it, so will have to see how long the blooms last. Any one out there tried this technique?