Bunches of flowers

Do you ,when you have a bunch of flowers,and they are coming to the end.
Just chuck them away or snip away the dead leaves flowers and put them into a smaller vase.
I do the latter frankly.
There is still life in them and it seems such a shame to throw them away.

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I keep my flowers going to the very end..I even tip the water out when they start looking a bit sad and top it up with sparkling lemonade just to give them a boost ..once I had a vase of flowers last 3 weeks

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Yes I do that too. Last year I received a bouquet of flowers and there were carnations in the bunch. I cut the bit out (shoots?) and planted them in the garden. So, now got them in the garden for nothing.

My bunches of flowers seem to last ages too Aysa, even tho some I've had from the supermarket say they only last 7 days.

Ashamed to say sometimes after a couple of weeks +, I get sick of looking at them and bin them, but not always.
And I'm always wishing those big smelly lilies would hurry up and die, can't abide their smell and they make me wheeze

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Oh don"t talk to me about Lilies, Pesta , My eldest DD always is buying me bunches of them, even though I have given hints I am not keen.
The pollen goes everywhere . I think they set off hayfever tbh.

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I always cut those bits off as soon as they open up Apricot. No problems with stuff getting on the furniture or clothes.

They are lovely looking flowers, but they smell so dreadfully

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....yes with half an asprin not sure if it does anything but they seem to last a few more days.

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Stops them getting a headache Meg, if nothing else.

I've heard all this stuff about aspirin or lemonade. I just change the water and put nothing in, not even the food they enclose with the bouquets. All I do is cut the stems diagonally when the first arrive and put 'em in water.

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My wife bins 'em. And hints at me to buy her some new ones.

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I had an elderly friend like that. She was always cross if she received flowers whether it was from her husband or friends.
She always used to swear and have a tantrum 'cos she'd have to go looking for a vase and mess about arranging them. She hated receiving flowers.
But a bottle of whisky was a different matter

Edited.
Floydy, just re-read your post and it read nothing like I thought it did so my comment must read a bit odd. But I'll leave it anyway - I like to be odd

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Haha! Yes, my wife tells me to buy her something 'interesting' - whatever that means, or give her a tenner.
Hell no, flowers are cheaper
The whiskey is for me