The Art of Drying Roses
If cultivating roses is deemed, in a way, a science and a discipline, then the practice of drying roses is an art that can be learned by just about anyone. When it comes to the planting and maintaining of roses, there are many different aspects that need to be appropriately understood in order for the roses to be able to grow healthy and beautiful. The matter of drying roses is not a different stuff altogether. You also need to study and master it.
Guide on Drying Roses
Drying roses is a great method that you can use in order to preserve their beauty (and perhaps their memory). If you are interested in drying roses, then you first have to make sure that you learn how to do it properly before you actually attempt it.
There are basically two most commonly used techniques in drying roses: air drying and sand drying. And you have to choose what type of technique you are going to use and then learn it.
Air drying is the easiest and requires the least amount of time to complete. It needs only a good pair of shears, some wire, a coat hanger and a dark dry location. With this technique, you begin by cutting the stem from the rose, as close to the head as you can possibly get, and then you insert a piece of wire about 6 to 8 inches long into the rose head.
When you are drying roses, you need to make sure that they are upside down, and so you want to take the end of one wire and wrap it around the bottom part of the hanger that you have, and then continue to wrap the wires of each rose until the hanger is full; just make sure that you leave some space in between each rose so that air can circulate around them.
Another way is to hang a bunch of roses upside-down from a nail. Just make sure that you leave the stems intact. Remove the bottom leaves, gather a few stems together and hold them together with an elastic band. Then you can place them in a dark and dry area until they are fully dried.
Once the roses are dried completely, you can mostly do whatever you want with them. For instance, you can keep them in a memory book or in a picture frame that you hang somewhere in your cozy living room for everyone to see. A piece of advice—place the frame wherever they are not going to get broken, like if you have children at home, you do not want to put them anywhere within their reach. Mastering the art of drying roses could earn you an extra income plus you may find it another form of enjoyment that whiles away lethargy and boredom.
