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From your own experience, which flowers do you often leave out of water in the cooler to slow them down and for how long before you think it's risky. Which flowers would you dare not leave out of water for any length of time.

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We don't have a cooler but oftern leave chrys carnations and spray carnations out never any longer than 2 days but not in warm weather I have a shed at back of house which is solid granite no windows and left chry in water 1 month as my employer had over bought they were in perfect condition also left grave posy for test 1 month and used it on family grave lasted 10 days on grave in May

I've left germini and lily out of water for a couple of days, used calla and anthurium in arrangements with stems out of water and they have lasted 2/3 days. When I was at college I left a carnation buttonhole in a plastic bag in the fridge to see how long it would last - got bored of waiting for it to die after a month!

I always thought of paeony as really fragile but last year bought off an English grower for the first time and he said they were tough as old boots, could go for days without water when in bud. Have never tried that though, they get used too quickly

Have got a cool shed like Rach and have left lilies, tulips, cars, xsanth, basically anything that comes in dry off dutchman we have left couple of days or so when necessary.