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Mon, May 19, 03 at 0:03
| Hi! I'm a new poster here, but have been on gardenweb for 2 years. I love flowers and gardening, and I am into making garden crafts, I paint (mostly terra cotta pots) and NOW I would like to attempt to make potpourri!
Anyway, I have some rose petals from the dozen roses my wonderful step-father gave me for Mothers Day, and I haven't the slightest clue how to preserve them ot let them dry out and all. Any first step advice would be appreciated! Thank you all. |
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| Deb - 1- hang your roses upside down to dry 2- do a search for potpourri 3- mix the dried petals with other dried petals and add some fragrance or essential oil 4- go to From Nature With Love for recipes and some other ingredients 5- keep a basket handy and add dried petals as you collect them 6- dry citrus peel to add to potpourri 7 - make tub teas with the petals and on, and on and on - does any of this help? :>karenb |
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- Posted by chinacat_sunflower (My Page) on Thu, May 22, 03 at 13:14
| there are two ways to dry roses- as whole flowers (hang upside down, either in small bunches, or singly) or by spreading the petals thinly on a screen and leaving them in a dry, shady place...they're not very 'wet' petals, so they dry in a few days. marigolds and delphimiums also dry well this way. Orris root is the 'traditional' powder added to 'hold' the fragrance oils, good herb shops/health food stores carry it. normally, one just adds essential oils to the mix, and fluffs them around. you can also candy rose petals, and make a rose sugar syrup (Martha the Tyrant has a recipe, a good 'rennaisance' site should as well, I make mine by 'feel' cup of sugar, half cup of water, two cups of petals, simmer don't boil, strain into a jelly jar when the mix turns the color the petals used to be) that's not as good as the violet, but way easier to come by. |
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