How To Make A Beautiful Garden Rose Bouquet
Making your own garden rose bouquet will definitely give you more pleasure and be easier on your pocket than buying one from the florist. A good bouquet of garden roses costs nothing less than $150. There is no reason why you should spend so much when you can make a bouquet within a few minutes with your own roses in the comfort of your own home.
Select your roses with care; cut only those that look healthy and are just about to open out. Single color roses of the same size work best for bouquets but if you are good at matching colors, go ahead and select different colored roses. Some colors that match well are red and white, peach and pink, yellow and blue, etc. White roses usually go well with all colors so you can confidently mix and match according to your taste.
Always cut roses only at dawn or late in the evenings. Roses cut in the afternoons wilt soon. Use sharp and clean garden shears to cut the roses at an angle. Remove the leaves from the bottom half of the stems. Dip the stems in a vase filled up to half with cool fresh water. You can add a preservative if you need to store the roses for a few days.
The night before you need the bouquet, take the roses out of the water. Remove the thorns with a good thorn stripper without damaging the stems. Also remove any wilted petals without touching the healthy petals.
Make an ‘O’ with your forefinger and thumb on the hand you use less. Take a rose and slip the stem into the ‘O’ and keep adding roses evenly at an angle around the bouquet keeping the stems intertwined. The bouquet should be a neat dome of roses with a narrow neck, where you are holding the stems together, and the stems themselves are splayed out.
Tie the neck of the bouquet with floral wire and cover with floral tape. Add green ferns or other greenery right around the bouquet and secure with floral wire. Cover the neck with decorative satin ribbon and fix it with a sturdy pin.
Retaining the splayed stems gives it the look of a fresh garden rose bouquet. But if you prefer the bouquet to look more even, snip off the bottom of the stems to keep them at one length.
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