Everyone loves the ever gorgeous garden rose; a very special, fragrant, soft, feminine and surprisingly easy to design with blossom. Garden roses with their unique highly pungent fragrance and their multi petal heads make them a stunner in every bouquet or fresh flower arrangement. Garden roses are simply beautiful and are a perfect flower choice for a bride's bouquet, bride's maids bouquet, boutonniere and bridal party attire embellishments.
There are a lot of choices to decide upon when using roses for any and every occasion but the garden rose stands out in the crowd above them all. This large and papery blossom is a highly used focal point in most vase arrangements since it's large and showy yet elegant enough to be adored as a main flower show stopper.
So, how does one design a gorgeous flower arrangement with fall or any seasonal flowers and incorporate this dynamic large blossom into the mix by maximizing the rose's full bloom state? The answer is probably very shocking because most of the time to get a flower to open up and become it's fullest state as an open blossom, you would have to let it sit in a vase of water for a few days and wait patiently as the garden rose slowly opens up to a large headed blossom. This is the normal way; to wait. But that is now not necessary anymore since this new way is just amazing and, you guessed it, super fast and effective.
Are you ready to know the secret to open up your garden rose to it's full bloom potential immediately upon designing with it? I thought so!
It's easier than you can imagine. Trust me I have been using garden roses for over 26 years in business here at Joey-Lynn's Flowers located in Haddon Township NJ and the secret I just discovered is blossoming lol!
To get your garden rose to open up to it's fully blossomed state we used to peel back the guard petals and then the first row of soft petals but now this new way of getting the flower to open fast as lightening is revealed. Simply turn your garden rose upside down in your hands, flower head facing down. Put your two hands together as if to rub them together to warm them, but only now you rub your hands together with the rose stem flower side facing down in between them. The quick rubbing of your hands together with the stem of the flower in between your hands makes the flower twirl fast, which in return puts air into the top of the garden rose head. This constant motion of twirling the rose stem between your palms will gently puff up and open up your garden rose to look huge.
No more peeling back the petals! This is super easy and super effective to achieve a large instant blossoms for your floral design work. If you want to add a little more puff to your blossom, you can gently blow down into the rose bud to further open it up even more if need be.
Now after twirling the stem in your hands for a few seconds take a look at how magnificent the rose looks. Wow! Huge and fully blossomed. And it will stay that way.
And that's it. That is all there is to it. Now you have a gorgeous huge garden rose to make a centerpiece or modern cube vase arrangement of your liking. Do this with at least a dozen roses ahead of time before your start to design and you will be ready to begin your bouquet in no time flat.
Always make sure however to remove the thorns on the stem of the rose as well as the leaves on the stem before twirling the flower between your hands. You don't want your hand to get cut by the thorns if there are any on the stem. Sometimes you don't need to do this step first since sometimes there aren't any thorns or at least not too many leaves to remove either.
I hope you are excited to start to making something beautiful with the one and only garden rose. Happy designing!
