Anthers Fo' Show

The other day while i was raiding the kitchen for food, my mom called me over share some of her ancient wisdom. She was at the breakfast table and i was only 15 ft away but she insisted that i come over so she could show me something. It was her lilies.

She got them for the Easter dinner and said that she was in a dilemma because when she brought them into the house they started to open already and she didn't want them to open yet. So she stuck them in the garage where it was cooler and they closed back up. So lesson number one, when i don't want my lilies to open...put them in a cool place.
The next thing she wanted to tell me was that when the flowers do open, to prolong the live of the flower and to delay the pedals from wilting...you need to pluck off the anthers from the filaments. She said she learned that from a guy in a flower shop a while back.

Below is a flower with the anthers hanging around... Here is a flower with the anthers removed...i personally think it looks cooler with the anthers, if i cared about flowers of course. After she shared her flower caring secrets with me she only removed the anthers from one flower. She must not care about the other flowers. Bummer..

Well there's your fun flower caring secret for the day...the more you know.