When it comes to buying flowers, I love a frillier bloom. Give me a bouquet of peonies, ranunculus, and fringed tulips over almost anything else and I’m happy.
So, when I heard about the latest TikTok flower hack to fluff your roses, my interest was extremely piqued.
With this video in mind, I made my way to my local flower stand, ready to test this method out.
The idea is simple. Using a new bouquet of fresh roses, gently pull the petals apart and—watching for thorns, if necessary—twirl each stem upside down between your palms so that the petals spread.
In the end, you should have an open, «fluffy» rose that looks fuller and more expensive than your original bouquet.
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After selecting my bouquet, I asked my local florist for her take. She looked slightly scandalized and offered a few words of warning for trying it myself.
She suggested doing this toward the end of the bouquet's natural life, or else, the roses could die faster. Petals are like fruit—if you tug on them too much, they’ll bruise within a day.
I nodded along to her wisdom, earnest and wide-eyed, knowing exactly what I had to do. In the name of this experiment, I needed to go home and yank on these petals immediately to see what happened.
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Much like in the videos, I prepared my roses as I normally would for a vase of water: I trimmed the stems and I snipped off the extra leaves. But this time, I gently pushed around the petals, turned each stem upside down, and twirled my roses one by one.
I have to admit, my blooms didn’t look too different after all this poking and twirling. Maybe if I used a
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