What can be made from dried roses: an overview of the best ideas

The beauty of a flower can last a long time, even after it has wilted. Properly dried roses will be a wonderful decoration for your home. The compositions created from them will become an original detail of the garden, courtyard.

A dried rose flower, located between the pages of a love story, has always been considered a sentimental detail of past centuries. But beauty does not die, but only shrivels, becomes faded, leaving a barely noticeable scent of former happiness. Such flowers could be used to make winter bouquets. There are still many ideas on how to give a rose a second chance to please people.

Content:

• Methods for drying rosebuds
• Decorations from dried roses for garden design
• Dried roses in the interior of the house
• Using rose petals in culinary products
• Ideas for using dry rose petals in cosmetology, in making gifts

Methods for drying rosebuds

Proper drying of blossoming roses will provide a material that will come in handy for using it in different areas of the household. There are several methods for drying flowers:

1. Harvest buds for dry compositions on clear, dry days. It is important to know that such specimens are more durable, which are collected at the moment when the flower has already begun to wither, but at the same time it still retains vitality. Dry them by spreading them out in a ventilated room, without exposing them to direct sunlight.
2. Within seven to ten days, delicate flowers dry up when their stems are in a little water. The moisture evaporates gradually, and therefore the drying is stretched.
3. Related stems roses without leaves, hung upside down in a cool room. Drying air needs warm air with a minimum of humidity.
4. If it is necessary to use branches with leaves and flowers for decoration, then they are laid out on special porous paper. The sheets are changed as they absorb moisture. You can position the rose branch between the absorbent paper by pressing it down with a press.
5. You can preserve the strength of a dry flower using wire. For the head of the rose, a loop is made into which the bud is threaded. The rest of the wire is wrapped around the stem. This strong support will prevent the fragile flower from falling apart.

You can use any method of drying the flower, but dampness will be fatal for it. At high humidity, it is difficult to get a dried rose, it will simply rot.

Decorations from dried roses for garden design

For a romantic garden style, bouquets of dried roses of different colors are suitable. You can put them in flowerpots near the gazebo and inside it. Before collecting the stems, you need to sprinkle the dried flowers with hairspray.

An artificially created tree - topiary - will be a true decoration of the yard.

To make it you need:

• Have thick wire, tape for wrapping, more than ten dry rose buds, a round ball on which flowers will be glued.
• First, the stem of the tree is prepared by wrapping the wire with tape.
• Then a ball is attached to the end of the barrel.
• With the help of glue, roses are attached around it, starting from the top.
• To decorate the base, you need to take the dried leaves of the flower and glue them.
• The finished tree is placed in a pot and the container is poured with diluted alabaster.
• As soon as the mass hardens, you can select a place for the original element of the site.
• Inside, the container is decorated with the remaining rose petals, picturesque pebbles.

Rosebuds can also be used to decorate the backs of wooden benches and swings. You can also sprinkle other products with petals, then covering them with varnish. The use of dried roses for garden decoration is at the mercy of the imagination of any person.

Dried roses in the interior of the house

In the design of home furnishings, roses can play the role of a wonderful element:

• The subtle pleasant smell emanating from vases with an arrangement of dried inflorescences will give charm.
• You can also decorate a simple frame for a picture or photograph with petals. Before use, the petals are straightened by placing them between the pages of a book or under pressure. After a few days, the composition of them is laid out on the frame, after having slightly greased with glue and pressed with glass. Rose petal paintings can become a real work of art.
• A bottle filled with withered flowers can be the original decor of the rooms at home. So that they do not lose their attractiveness for a long time, they are poured with glycerin diluted in water in a 1: 2 ratio. These hermetically sealed bottles can be placed in rooms, decorated with a bright ribbon or a shiny figurine. They will also look good in the courtyard of a country house.
• An unexpected element will be roses of contrasting colors in a closed container located in the bathroom. The stalks of flowers are attached inside a syrnitsa with a glass dome using clay and polyurethane foam.
• Aromatic pillows, decorated decoratively, will make a woman's boudoir romantic. Pillows, or sachets, will cheer you up, and the added cloves, rosemary, chamomile will both calm and excite.

For home interior design, roses, even when dried, are an indispensable element.

Using rose petals in culinary products

The queen of flowers petals are used in many culinary recipes:

1. A dessert made from candied rose petals is delicious. To prepare the treats, put powdered sugar into a cup, and fill the other with whipped whites. Taking the petals with tweezers, dip them in a protein mixture, then in powder. After that, they are laid out on parchment or foil and kept in a well-ventilated room. You can store the dessert in a tightly closed jar, using it to decorate cakes, pies, jelly.
2. Persian tea is made up of black tea leaves and rose petals. It takes only ten minutes to infuse the drink.
3. The sauce made from rose petals (two glasses), black currant juice (three tablespoons), lemon juice (five tablespoons) and sugar (125 grams) perfectly complements the taste of game. Boil the sauce over low heat, adding a little mustard at the end.
4. For rose jam, you need to take one kilogram of sugar per four hundred grams of petals. Petals are poured into the prepared syrup, a teaspoon of citric acid is added. The jam is ready when it thickens.

The petals of a regal flower improve the taste of honey water and wine.

Ideas for using dry rose petals in cosmetology, making gifts

Cosmetologists recommend that owners of oily, porous skin use products made with rosebuds. For a cleansing lotion, take two cups of dry petals and mix them with 250 milliliters of 70 percent table vinegar. After the solution is infused for three weeks, it is filtered and diluted with the same amount of water. Use a wiping tonic before bedtime.

Ice made from rose water effectively relieves swelling and irritation of the facial skin. This water can be added to a nourishing cream, shampoo. Prepare it by taking two hundred grams of sugar, fifty grams of rose petals, a liter of boiled water.Shaking the mixture regularly for two hours, you get a wonderful cosmetic product.

Rose petals are suitable for any crafts, and this requires a little imagination.

During home celebrations, dried rosebuds and their petals will help make the celebration unforgettable. They will serve as a decoration for a dining tablecloth, in the form of buds inserted into a napkin ring. Dried flowers can be glued to candles by gluing them with a heated spoon.

As a gift, together with the children, you can come up with an interesting applique, a postcard using dry inflorescences. I will also like such a gift as a phyto bottle. Dried flowers, graceful shells are poured into it. A bottle suspended on a ribbon or chain will adorn a festive outfit.

From flower petals ground in a blender, you can make an original decoration - beads. Before making the balls, boil the pink mass to free it from moisture. You can string flower balls on a strong thread by attaching a clasp.

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