How To Grow & Take Care Of Blooming Flowers This Summer
Discover essential tips for growing and caring for blooming flowers this summer. Keep your garden vibrant, healthy, and full of color all season long.
Hot summer brings a whole different gardening experience altogether. High temperature, insects, and diseases come as a huge challenge that requires strategic care and maintenance to ensure you have a flourishing garden.
While the longer days and abundant sunlight might sound like paradise for your plants, high temperatures, increased evaporation, pests, and fast-spreading plant diseases make summer a serious test of your green thumb.
Whether you're a balcony gardener with potted blooms or tending to a full backyard in full sun, the goal remains the same, which is to keep your flowers thriving, not just surviving.
In this article, we learn about the most effective strategies and tips to grow and take care of blooming flowers this summer.
Tips To Take Care Of Flowers In Summer
Keep Your Plants In A Place With Ample Shade
You don’t want your plants to have too much sunlight, which can also harm the flowers, make them dull ,and ultimately die out. You need to ensure flowers get a cool and shady environment.
Also, some flowers are more sensitive than others, with delicate petals and al,l which need protection from direct heat.
Ensuring Sufficient Sunlight
You indeed need to avoid giving them too much sunlight, but they still need to get sufficient doses of sunlight to get nourishment and grow.
If you have flower pots, keep them somewhere where they don’t get too much or too little sunlight, just as required.
Or else, you can keep them in sunlight for some time and then move them to a shady place.
Deadheading The Flowers
Deadheading is essential to keep your flowers blooming as long as possible. Once you see the flower spent, the plant starts to develop seeds to reproduce for future.
This process drains a lot of energy from the plants and their roots. You can use a hand pruner to remove the spent flower head, redirecting to create new flower buds.
It also makes the plants aesthetically better. Around midsummer is the best time to deadhead the flowers.
Prioritise To Pick Heat-Tolerant Flowers
Some flowers are simply not made for the summer heat. Peonies, tulips, and gardenias wilt fast.
Instead, go for summer flowers like Sunflowers, Gerberas, Chrysanthemums, Carnations, Alstroemeria, Statice, and Orchids.
They naturally resist wilting, tolerate warm conditions better, and last longer, even with minimal care.
Always Use A Clean Vase For Planting
Even though it may seem obvious, yet the most commonly skipped.
A dirty vase is a bacterial breeding ground, and bacteria are public enemy number one for cut flowers.
Our experts at 800flower.ae say, “flowers continue to transpire even after being cut—so clean, room-temperature water isn’t just preferred, it’s critical for keeping xylem vessels unclogged and hydration levels balanced.”
As soon as microbes enter the stem, they clog up the xylem, the internal water-conducting tissue, reducing water uptake.
Wash your vase with hot water and unscented antibacterial soap. For extra protection, add a dash of white vinegar or a teaspoon of bleach. Rinse thoroughly and dry before use.
Change The Water Regularly For Your Flower Pots
Stale water is like a petri dish of floral doom. Ideally, you should change the water every 24–48 hours, but not just that, clean the vase and re-trim the stems each time.
Make sure you don’t just top up the water; that dilutes the bad stuff but doesn’t remove it.
Also, you must add a flower preservative when refilling. You can make your own with 1 teaspoon sugar for food, 1 teaspoon bleach or vinegar as an antibacterial, and 2 teaspoons lemon or lime juice for adding acidity for better uptake.
Use the Right Flower Food or DIY It
Commercial flower food packets are perfectly balanced for most flowers: they provide sugar, biocides, and acidifiers.
But if you’re into a DIY approach, all you need to do is mix 1 tablespoon of sugar, bleach, and lemon juice each along with 1 litre of lukewarm water
Make sure the sugar is completely dissolved to avoid feeding bacteria instead of blooms.
Boost Flower Growth With Fertilizer
A healthy garden starts with healthy soil! If you have soil with good health, it might not be necessary to use fertilizer. So it is better to let your plants tell you whether they need it or not.
If you notice yellowing of the leaves or not proper growth or blooming, consider to add existing soil by top-dressing the plant’s roots with a compost.
Wrapping Up
Keeping flowers fresh in the summer isn’t a guessing game. It’s a balance of science, environmental control, and a little floral wisdom.
From trimming stems at the right angle to managing bacterial growth and monitoring temperature fluctuations, each step you take directly impacts how long your blooms last.
Flowers may be delicate, but they respond powerfully to well-informed care.
You need to treat them like the living organisms they still are—because even in a vase, they’re still breathing, drinking, and reacting to their surroundings.
So the next time you bring home a bouquet or receive one, don’t just admire it, engineer its longevity. Because when you apply a little science, your flowers won't just survive summer, they'll thrive in it.
