Watching Your Wallet: Making your Valentine's flowers last

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Mother quality creates the cleanable backdrop for this budding business.

Farmer and florist Svetlana Oliinyk launched Lovely Blooms Flower Farm successful Clovis astir 2 years ago, but it was her parent that introduced her to gardening erstwhile she was conscionable 9 years old.

Growing and designing her flowers from May to June, Oliinyk is offering Valentine's Day arrangements for the archetypal clip with her signature aesthetic.

"I similar to harvester color, spot if they compliment each different and spot if they bring retired the quality successful each flower," she said.

Oliinyk shared immoderate of her inspiration to the unsocial creations.

"I look astatine the color, truthful I spot pink, this small peach orange, past you spot yellow," she said.

She suggests looking astatine the undertones of the main flowers and leaves if you're creating your ain arrangement.

Flowers should beryllium one-and-a-half to 2 times the tallness of the vase.

"Each angiosperm does person its ain vase life," Oliinyk said.

Svetlana has 3 elemental steps to making those blooms last.

"Start with a cleanable vase due to the fact that the h2o stays clean, the flowers enactment longer," she said.

The adjacent measurement is to trim the stems astatine a 45-degree space truthful they tin sorb much water.

"The 3rd measurement is each different day, alteration the water," Oliinyk said. "If you want, you tin chopped the stems astir fractional an inch."

You tin order your bouquets online.

Valentine's Day orders tin beryllium picked up February 11 done the 14th.

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