Spring Blooms Indoors

Before the weather turns, get your clippers out and cut branches from your spring flowering shrubs to bring in and force to bloom.

Here are just a few shrubs you can try this with:   Redbud, Flowering Quince, Flowering Dogwood, Hawthorn, Forsythia, Honeysuckle, Apple and Crabapple,  European Pussy Willow, Spirea, and Lilac

What do you do?
1. With pruning shears or a sharp knife cut branches that have numerous flower buds.

2. After you bring the branches inside, split open stem bottom with sharp scissors about 1 inch or gently mash with a hammer.

3. Place in a vase of warm (not hot!) water away from direct sunlight, and keep cool at night.

What should you see? 

GORGEOUS!