Help Your Flowers Last Longer

Help Your Flowers Last Longer

J is a fanatic about caring for his flowers- and he loves to share Best Practices you can use to help your Flowers Last Longer! J will suggest his favorite products and simple tips, tricks and hints that will allow you to enjoy your flowers much longer!

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  • Flower Care, Flower Food and Cutting with a Knife

    J’s featuring Fresh Cuts this week on Fun with Flowers and J… Fresh Cuts are Short Video on uBloom that showcase valuable tips, tricks and hints for arranging flowers! Look for Fresh Cuts on the FREE Video Content Page… coming to uBloom in April, 2015!!!

    For More information on Flower Food visit...

  • How to Care for your Flowers & Easy to Make Flower Arrangements!

    J takes the mystery out of caring for your Flower Purchase… and shares 3 Simple and Easy Flower Arrangements. It’s EASY with the Right Tools and Directions from the Flower Expert!

  • Tips for Processing and Arranging Flowers

    J shares 3 Valuable tips from his NEW Book Bloom 365- Don’t Dilute, Bucket Logic and Made in the Shade… these tips and 100’s more are waiting for you inside Bloom 365- The essential guide for arranging flowers!

    Order your copy of Bloom 365 here…
    www.uBloom.com/Bloom365

    For more information abo...

  • The “Short Cut” to Longer lasting Roses for Valentines Day!

    J shares the secret to Longer Lasting Roses… “The SHORT CUT”! Cutting Roses Short and ‘basing’ them into a container creates a FUN Alternative to Long Stemmed Roses… and the roses LAST Longer! J shows you step by step how to create this unique (and EASY) stylish look!

  • Break-away Centerpieces.

    Creating Several centerpieces that can be combined into one centerpiece is a Fun way to use all different kinds of flowers. When using different flower types we can insure our flowers last longer… by using different Chrysal Flower Nutrients… that treat each flower Expertly… for the very Best Resu...

  • Longer lasting flowers and NO Funky Water!

    Everyone Loves Flowers- and our Unified Goal- is to have our Flowers Last Longer- we all agree on that! One of the most common questions I receive is “Should I change my water every day?” and the answer is NO! Especially when you treat your water- with the correct flower nutrients- You water shou...

  • Adding a Convenient Water Supply to Hand Tied Bouquets!

    J takes flowers everywhere he goes… and it’s important for those flowers to arrive in great condition… Enter “ARRIVE ALIVE” from Chrysal USA… the perfect solution for making sure your flowers make it to their destination ALIVE and WELL!!! J shows how to create a standing hand bouquet and attach A...

  • Flower Nutrients Tips!

    J shares tips for using Flower Nutrients to make your flowers last longer. This episode is especially for Professional Florists and Wedding and Event Designers- J shares the secrets behind using the correct flower nutrient for transport and display and what flower nutrient to use to make your flo...

  • How To Make a Casket Spray (and use Chrysal Professional Solutions)

    This Week J Does Double Duty... Sharing Best Practices for using Chrysal Professional Floral Nutrient Solutions 1-2-3. This gives you the Very Best Valuable Information about Flower Nutrients... and then J teaches the Fine Art of Creating a Casket Spray!

  • Care and Handling – Cut Peonies- includes opening tips!

    Tips for Opening Peonies + Care and Handling for Peonies!

    It’s Peony Season- whether you’re ordering them- finding them at Flower Sellers- or cutting them out of the yard… Peonies benefit from a few of my favorite tips I’ve learned over the years.

    We grew several acres of Peonies -for our Flo...

  • Longer Lasting Flowers- with Chrysal Glory!

    This week’s Video Blog- provides the Secret to Longer Lasting Flowers- with Chrysal Professional Glory.
    An Anti-transpirant- that helps seal the molecular structure of the flower- and thus prevents the flower from Transpiring Water off the face of the flower quickly.
    This is an ideal treatment ...

  • Hydrangeas in Foam- SUCCESS!

    This week’s Video Blog- is about Hydrangeas in Foam… I know a lot of you get nervous when it comes to placing Hydrangeas in Flower foam… but don’t worry- just follow these steps:
    1. Use Good Quality Foam- In this vlog I use the NEW Midnight Foam from Oasis® - it’s bio-degradable and transfers wat...

  • How to use Chrysal Specialty Nutrients for BETTER Quality Flowers!

    This Week Flower Expert J Schwanke teaches the Flower Shop Gang about Specialty Flower Nutrients from Chrysal USA... Special Hydration Nutrients for Roses and Hydranges, Bulb Food for All Types of Bulb Flowers and CVBN Tablets For Gerberas and other "Dirty" Stem Flowers! This episode is recommen...

  • Tool Care- Video Blog!

    This week’s 5 Minute video blog- is dedicated to our Tools! The Proper Tools make the difference between working smarter or struggling- it’s really that simple. I sharpen my tools daily- I clean them after every use- I take care of them… because my Tools are the extension of my work- and it makes...

  • How to Insure Long Lasting Flowers with ARRIVE ALIVE!

    JTV's CSI unit... breaks the case... and Show you HOW to Make Sure your Flowers Always ARRIVE ALIVE! J shares the Secret of Arrive Alive from Mac Technologies and also shows the BEST Way to Deliver your Flower Arrangements no Matter what the size or shape! Make sure ALL your Flowers ARRIVE ALIV...

  • Securing Flower Foam!

    In this week’s video blog- we talk about securing your flower foam into containers. We are all familiar with using anchor tape for securing foam into a container… but this method- provides an easy way to secure foam into a disposable container… simply by using hot glue.

    In addition- I share a ti...

  • Straight Talk with J- Hydrangea Care

    I get so many questions about Hydrangea Care- and I also hear a great deal of bad information being passed around… so I’m taking the opportunity to offer some straight talk about Hydrangea Care- this simple 5 Minute video is a valuable guide for care and handling of cut hydrangea blooms. It’s sim...

  • Best Practices for Processing Alexandra Farms Garden Roses

    Everyone Loves Garden Roses- and to insure your Garden Roses perform and open- you need to follow these simple steps for success!

    I take an actual shipment of Garden Roses from Alexandra Farms- Mariatheresia – and show you the professional steps you can implement to insure you have beautiful ros...

  • Chrysal Professional 3- Better Results!

    This week- it’s all about ONE of my NEW Favorite Products- Chrysal Professional 3 – I’m wild about this NEW Formula- it provides the absolute BEST Results for cut flowers- and makes my arrangements last longer- PERIOD!

    I know we hear a lot of claims- and even some talking about NO CUT Formulas- ...

  • Chrysal Personalized Sachets!

    We have the PERFECT opportunity everyday to promote out Business – along with our Beautful LONG LASTING Flowers…

    Flower Buyers are looking for the Beautiful, Long Lasting Flowers- and the Best Service- and all that rolls into one… with Chrysal’s NEW Personalized Sachets.

    Offer in Small quantit...

  • Hydrangea Arranging Tips!

    Everyone loves Hydrangea- and the secret to Beautiful Results- is starting with the BEST Hydrangea-

    My friend Jaime Ruiz from GroFlowers- produces the finest Hydrangea I’ve seen- they are grown, harvested, packaged and transported with Expert Care- Handling and within the Cold Chain- meaning tha...

  • The Chrysal Event Pak- Featuring NEW Full Bloom!

    I’m a Chrysal Believer- I’ve used their flower nutrients and products for over a decade. Weddings and Events benefit great from the unique products Chrysal creates to help your flowers open faster, look more beautiful, last longer and command attention.

    The NEW Event Pak from Chrysal includes ...

  • Applying Arrive Alive to Fresh Flowers!

    Everyone is getting Busy with Fresh Flowers- So I’ll make it quick… and help your Flowers ARRIVE ALIVE!

    This week’s Video is SHORT and SWEET! After all Mother’s day is coming! Whether your selling, buying or receiving flowers… Chrysal’s Arrive Alive is the BEST way to Insure your flowers Arrive...