New Year is coming! So many people buy a home live spruce or decorate the house spruce or fir twigs Christmas. We usually put the artificial fir tree and decorate it with toys and garlands, but for flavor, I buy a few bouquets of Christmas fir twigs. In this article, I will discuss a few ways to do so It did not fall any needles before the end of the holidays!
1. To save Christmas twigs in excellent condition for a long time, make a small slice diagonally branches from the trunks and put them in a bath of cold water for a day. After the paper towel wipe dry place and seal the slices of wax. In a vase with branches add 2 aspirins and 2 tablespoons sugar. So you maximize the life of this fragrant Christmas decorations. (Scroll to the right photo)
2. If you do not want to wind up with wax and wait for the day before to deliver fir or spruce branches Christmas in a vase, do the trunks a plurality of longitudinal cuts like splitting them. They should be used to room temperature 2 hours, and then soak them in cold water another 2 hours. Do not place a vase near the battery.
3. By the way, there is a way, how to make the frost on the branches. To do this, you need to boil 1 kg of salt, then soak it in a branch. I checked this method in practice - does not work. Only branches withered and had to throw the bouquet! (Scroll to the right photo)
4. And if if you bought a live spruce, put it for a day in a bucket of cold water, that she "got drunk", the resin becomes viscous and sticky. Before installing the spruce, Speel refresh 3-5 centimeters, remove from the trunk of the lower branches 10 centimeters. So the tree will be easier to absorb water and nutrients longer and do not lose attractive appearance. By the way, when buying spruce tree select with the most flexible and green branches. Like this - Like her vote and do not forget to subscribe to the feed, we will soon have 7000 people!