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Plant ID- Eucalyptus?
Hello! I live in Piedmont area of NC (zone 7). I'm responsible for doing flowers for a friend's wedding in the first week of November. I found these growing on the side of my new house and took the photo today, on Sept 15. Is this seeded eucalyptus? It looks fairly like photos online but with different leaves.. what are the odds I can keep this tree alive until November to use clippings in the flowers, even perhaps if it means transporting clippings inside at some point? Would love to bring plants from home instead of buying them! Thank you for the help.
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Does it smell like eucalyptus? If not it probably isn't.
I know florists can keep branches, cuttings, and flowers fresh by keeping them in water and damp paper towels in refrigerators but I don't know if they can be kept for 2 months.
You could try drying them, pack the cuttings in borax for a couple weeks or set the cut ends in a glycerin solution. This site tells how to use the glycerin:
https://www.wikihow.com/Preserve-Boxwood-Cuttings
I've not done the glycerin. My mom did the borax drying when I was a kid. The borax drying works well for straw flowers and stuff like that. But the resulting plant is very brittle and faded.
I know florists can keep branches, cuttings, and flowers fresh by keeping them in water and damp paper towels in refrigerators but I don't know if they can be kept for 2 months.
You could try drying them, pack the cuttings in borax for a couple weeks or set the cut ends in a glycerin solution. This site tells how to use the glycerin:
https://www.wikihow.com/Preserve-Boxwood-Cuttings
I've not done the glycerin. My mom did the borax drying when I was a kid. The borax drying works well for straw flowers and stuff like that. But the resulting plant is very brittle and faded.
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