Every January my local Publix grocery store has about a week and a half
when the store is filled with
"Buy One, Get One Free" bouquets of roses.
Two dozen roses for a little over $10.00!!
I've written about this before.
I posted pictures of the fresh, beautiful roses on my Instagram account.
They had every color of rose imaginable.
I put them everywhere.
Eventually they begin to fade.
I keep them for as long as I possibly can.
I refresh the water and trim the stems to prolong the beauty.
Roses are worth it.
And then the roses begin to dry and the petals become papery.
I leave them in the vase on the counter until there isn't any moisture left in the bloom.
There are a lot of different ways to dry roses but this works for me.
Not every bloom dries perfectly but I usually have over half of them dry beautifully.
I snip them from the stem and arrange them in a bowl
or on a little blue and white chinoiserie plate.
They don't have much scent but you can take a cotton ball and put a few drops of essential oil on a cotton ball and tuck it under the blooms.
They don't last forever - when they get too fragile or the color fades you can just toss them
and treat yourself to another bouquet of roses and dry those!
