Rhode Island Monthly April 2020 | Page 65

ABOVE: Bouquets can last more than a week, Kocon says. Buy local, fresh flowers, change the water at least every other day and keep them out of direct sunlight and hot temps. Sterilized vases and containers work best. LEFT: In the bouquet are spirea foliage, thornless blackberry, cosmos, amaranth, daucus dara, zinnia, lisianthus, dahlia, eucalyptus and sanguisorba. RHODE ISLAND MONTHLY l APRIL 2020     63