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Let's assume you're talking about cut flowers. The commercially available OTC preservative powders work great, but you can save money and make your own with;

3 parts water (tap or spring, distilled is best), (i.e.36oz)

1 part citrus soda pop (7-up, Mountain Dew, Squirt, Wink, Ginger Ale, NOT DIET)

(i.e. 12 oz can) +

1 Tablespoon bleach.

These provide the necessary ingredients to sustain a plant for a couple of weeks. The water is obvious, the soda pop for food (sugar), and the citric acid found in these sodas provides and antibacterial along with the bleach.

If you are cutting Daffodils, make sure you change the water every 20 minutes for the first hour and DO NOT put other plants or flowers in with them as their sap is toxic to themselves and other plants. They expell "bad stuff" through their Phloem just as we expell CO2 through our lungs.

A great book to get is "Garden to Vase".

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