"....if it would it hold up to cut flower handling and have a decent vase life."
Fat chance. People who say that top show flowers make good cut flowers are woefully mistaken. Show flowers in most cases must be grown with show procedures of topping, pinching, fertilizing , disbudding, pluperfect staking and tying up and grown in the proper amount of sun including many times under shade cloth. Tell me you do this with your cut flowers. Perhaps s this analogy works: It is like seeing a movie star without make-up.
