Art, craft, food and experiment with roses - please share
@NollieSpainZ9 suggested setting up a thread to share creative explorations with roses. So, here we go. That might be - drawings, arty photos, petal drying projects, edible petal experiments, botanical dyeing, paper making, pressing roses, drying, origami, fabric crafts, rose waters, whatever you're up to. I'd love to see.
If anyone (Houzz old timers) know of old threads here along these lines, I'd love to see the links. Thanks
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last yearI've made rose petal jam.
It's very easy if you have the roses. This is Hippolyte. I've also made it with Ispahan.I think there have been threads on drying roses for potpourri. That isn't something I've tried since our summer humidity would just turn it to mush.
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last yearOh, Sheila, how familiar I am with your art work. I just didn't have the foresight to heap my burnt up rose blooms into artistic piles. My blooms went straight into the garbage after I deadheaded them by the five gallon bucket loads. A very sad task. But I admit it's very easy to dry roses here, intact in perfect blooms. All I have to do is let my plonks sit in a vase for an extra few days, and voila, dry rose blooms. That's what you get when you live in a desert. I can dry buds by laying them out on paper towels in the garage. I do this at the end of the season when a hard frost is threatened. Just snip off those buds and off to the garage and a paper towel. Not long after, I have a nice bunch of totally dried buds. One year, my friend used them for guests to toss at her son's wedding. I have them in demitasse cups and scattered messily around my dresser top.
My project here is not really a rose one, but a poppy seed pepper shaker project. I grow a bazillion dark purple poppies which leave behind the cutest pepper shakers full of seeds. After I bring in all the pepper shakers I want, too many, I let them ripen in the handy garage for a while, Then I bang the shakers against the side of a big bowl, and let the seed fly. But what to do with the cute shakers? For years, I'd give them to my granddaughter to use in a craft project, but she never used them. Now that she had her degree in art, she can do something useful with her degree, and she finally she did. Here is her pepper shaker project for her Nana. Diane
From this:
To this:
Waste not, want not.
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mad_gallica (z5 Eastern NY) That looks fab. Do you have a recipe link?
Diane Brakefield those shakers are so very cool. I have never seen them painted before. Are they from opium poppies? I have gilded poppies seedheads with (not real) gold leaf. Very fun.
"My blooms went straight into the garbage after I deadheaded them by the five gallon bucket loads." Do you compost?----
Some homemade paper, coloured with rose petals and with petals embedded. Pretty quick. Seeds can be embedded too, making for lovely greeting cards that can be planted.
https://craftexpert.co.uk/how-to-make-paper-from-recycled-paper/
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Here is a rose hip plonk. It won't last like the pepper shaker bouquet, but it was fun to plop the rose hips in the pitcher that was painted by my daughter, who obviously doesn't have a degree in art. Oops.
Fire Zone, that's a very clever idea to make homemade paper cards in which seeds have been embedded, and that can be planted. I should suggest that to my granddaughter. The poppies are Lauren's Dark Grape breadseed poppies, a nice way of saying opium poppies, I guess. Diane
I have pounds of this poppy's seed.
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Not very technical. I saw it first used on the forum years ago on the old Garden Web. I just never seem to have time to make many real bouquets. I realize you Brits use the word for cheap champagne and wine, or used to do so. Diane
A few plonks
A funny plonk I rearranged from a bouquet's flower survivors, the original florist bouquet being a gift to my granddaughter.Kitty--I have a hat!
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last yearHi Fire, sorry to be late to the party, due to recent home disasters! I’m sure you have some arty rose/garden photos to share?
I wouldn’t say I’m especially arty but I do have some rose close-ups/portraits to share..
Ebb Tide:
Love Song:
‘Antiqued’ The Prince:
A Ladurée bloom with different backgrounds:
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mad_gallica (z5 Eastern NY)