Fresh flower holder

In the method of making a holder for a fresh flower or bud from which the stem has been severed, said holder including a covered wire, a portion of absorbent material formed around an intermediate portion of the covered wire to form a moisture reservoir, and a water-repellent covering formed around said absorbent material and extending down the length of said stem, the improvement comprising the steps of

• bending double at one end a length of textile-covered wire,
• forming a moisture reservoir spaced from the bent double end of said wire by winding around said covered wire a strip of absorbent material while said material is oriented in a nonperpendicular orientation with respect to said wire, so as to thereby form a generally conical well having a stepped interior surface at the flower end of said reservoir and to thereby form a tapered transition having a stepped exterior surface at the other end of said reservoir, and
• wrapping an adhesive, water-repellent tape around said absorbent material and wire, so that said tape extends to the edge of or just beyond said absorbent material at the flower end and continues beyond said tapered transition down the length of said wire,
• whereby, when said holder is moistened and said flower is impaled on the bent-over end of the wire, the textile-covered wire enters the severed end of said flower without the textile material working off the wire, and the severed end of said flower is securely held within the well formed by the absorbent material.