Roses are ideal cut flowers. The best time to cut them is just as the buds are starting to open. Few garden flowers make ... To keep roses fresh in the vase, Marriott offers these nine pointers ...

Related: The 12 Best Pruning Shears to Keep Your Garden in Check While you’re trimming the roses, be sure to remove any leaves along the stem that will fall below the water line in the vase.

Instead, they look as if they are from an English cottage garden — open ... realized that the same problem existed with roses grown for the vase. “It was about a closed, static flower ...

If you look closely at the winter garden, it's surprising what is there to cut and arrange in a vase. John Vosper used ... Add a bought bunch of roses as a focal point," John said.