My credentials: NONE -- just a homeowner with a very green yard and beautiful flowers.
I do use mild, diluted home dish soap on my plants occasionally. Soap increases water absorption by soil, knocks down bugs, and cleans plant leaves. Dish soap is a detergent and a surfactant and a mild alkali. If you have acidic soil, the soap will make it more neutral. If you already have alkali soil, I don't think soap makes much difference to the pH.
The reduced surface tension caused by soap helps water soak in better on clayey soil. I started doing this years ago after reading it in a lawn care book.
I have bottles of weak dish soap that I get at "99c Only" stores just for this purpose. I want the cheapest stuff there is, since it probably has the fewest unwanted additives.
I don't put the pure soap directly on the flowers -- you could really burn them. Dilute the soap, spray them, and water them in well afterward.
If you're really worried, try your soap on one plant first.
Soapy water is great for flowers. If poured directly on the leaves it will also kill all soft bodied leaf eater that destroy your flowers. I spray my flowers every week with a soap solution.
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There are chemicals in soap that can harm not just flowers but animals too. Flowers need soil, water, sunlight, and air to live. Not BATHS from soap. It WILL kill the flower. It will kill the flower whether it is cut or not.
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You would use hand dish soap. Because auto dish soap has bleach in it. The bleach would kill every thing. And the bleach is a poison.
Dawn Dish soap does not kill grass.
Yes but it doen't leave a fruity scent.
Dish soap!
Yes, it is a dish soap.
dish soap cleans a penny because it soap
dawn dish soap is a oil based soap
you need very little soap, s few drops in a liter of water are enough