2 weeks ago I picked a beautiful pink rose outside my house that I get every year and put in a bud vase and enjoy it for a few days. I still have pictures from previous years. I put it in the vase and filled with my filtered water and took a 2 hour nap. When I woke up it was COMPLETELY wilted. The same thing happened in May but it had a tear in the stem close to the bud so I thought that was why it wilted quickly. Since then I have been boiling any water I drink. I live in Cincinnati Ohio.
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You can send a sample to an independent lab to be checked,doesn't cost much. People with private wells do this all the time.
As a former florist I can tell you it takes less than 10 minutes for a cut flower to lose the ability to take up water. If you cut it and then walked around with it in your hand for a few minutes it sealed itself along the cut.
Always give flowers a fresh diagonal cut immediately before placing in water.
Wow, that is nuts - I have been filtering my tap water for the past couple of months.
Oh my Cincinnati... I just shipped 300$ worth of graeters icecream to my house. Oh by the way Skyline has andouille sausage again. Just a headsup
I love the black raspberry chocolate chip 🥰
Yes that is tasty but September they sell Elena's Blueberry Pie Ice-cream which has real blueberries and real pie chunks. Its more like the flavor of a blueberry muffin though! Its the best.
Nice 😊 there are a few in kentucky i go to but i haven't been in a few years
I just had Graeters ice cream tonight for dinner. Also have frozen Skyline in my freezer almost always. 2 of my favorites.
It was cut and put in water in about a minute. After I woke up and saw it I knew it looked wilted enough to not improve but I did pour out the water and put in the regular tap water and nothing changed. The fact it happened in May convinced me there was something really wrong going on with my water and I already have a slew of health issues that go back many years. It never happened the year before or the other 6 years I lived in the area and picked my rose.
Lemon will help, it does something I can’t remember. Still boil it before.