Hand-tied bouquets

[MrsJackPearson]

Just wondering, do people generally put their flowers in vases if they receive a bouquet, or do you leave it the way it is delivered and just top up the water?

I had a friend who was a florist and she used to advise buying hand-tied so that it could just be left looking beautiful the way it arrives. She’s now retired and the last bouquet I received from a different florist (thanks DH!) started dying after only a couple of days. I decided to take them out and put them in a vase and the water they were in was totally green, none of the leaves below the water line had been removed which I’ve always thought was necessary.

Do florists normally remove the leaves? I can’t see the point in paying for someone to arrange a beautiful bouquet, for you to then have to rearrange yourself into vases!

I might be being dim, but don't you take it out the thing it comes in, remove the leaves but not the tie, and then put it in its own vase?

I think that's what I would expect to do but I am definitely not an expert!

There is string usually holding it together, is that what you mean? But then the stems are all so tightly packed together that I couldn’t remove all the leaves, maybe just the outer ones, would that be enough?

Sorry I missed this but I think so yes, and change the water regularly.

theflowerteam.co.uk/hand-tie-care/

Suggests similar here so I think that would be right.

Tbh though I think the foliage should have been taken off before you got it but again I'm no florist!