What you need:
- Pruning shears
- Large vase
- Bucket
- Bleach or a commercial flower preservative
- Dry cleaning bag
You can start enjoying spring early by bringing limbs of various shrubs indoors about six weeks before they would normally bloom in your area. Cut 2 to 3 foot branches of flowering shrubs like willow, forsythia, ash, redbud, azalea, hazelnut, birch, maple, magnolia, cherry, apple, quince, elm, mulberry, plum, or sumac. It's best to do this when the outside temperatures are above freezing. |