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" I just had a quality dinner with my good friend Liz, and she was so sweet to give me a beautiful bouquet of yellow roses for my birthday (which was Monday). Thank you, Liz \u2014 you&amp;#039;re the best! Think roses always need to be stuck in a big, tall vase since they have long stems? Try something new \u2014 and easy. I actually like to create a small cluster of blooms with a squat cylindrical vase. I grabbed an unused pint-size ceramic pot as my vase and filled it with water. Next, I clipped off all the leaves from the roses \u2014 since leaves will create bacteria in the water that shortens the life of your blooms. Then I clipped the rose&amp;#039;s stems down with my trusty OXO floral snips so the stems were a couple inches taller than the top of the pot. All the stems don&amp;#039;t need to be the same height \u2014 it&amp;#039;s actually better if they&amp;#039;re slightly different. Place the shorter ones around the edge of the vase and then fill in with the taller ones. In the small pot, the stems help hold each other up like floral foam. I love the way all the buds look clustered together in one bunch. Simple, dramatic, and so pretty. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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