What to do with dead roses
Roses are native to China, Japan and Korea and are deciduous shrubs of the genus Rosa in the family Rosaceae. Giving roses leaves a lingering fragrance in your hands. People will give roses to each other on important festivals and anniversaries. However, since the roses given are pruned branches, the flowers will wither after a few days. It would be a pity to throw them away. Let’s learn what to do if your roses wither.
Make dried flowers
Since roses retain their color for a short period of time after withering, they can be made into dried flowers when they first begin to wither. Roses made into dried flowers can be stored for a long time without losing their ornamental value. To make roses into dried flowers, first cut off the excess leaves on the branches to reduce nutrient consumption, then use ropes or clips to hang the bottom branches of the roses in a cool place, wait for them to dry, and then insert them into a beautiful bottle That’s it, the bottle doesn’t need to contain water.
Make bookmarks
Friends who love reading can make a rose into a bookmark holder and put it in a book. During leisure time, make a pot of tea and read a book with a light floral fragrance. It is so beautiful and comfortable to look at the beautiful roses. To make a bookmark from a rose, you need to pluck the withered rose petals one by one, discard the blackened and deformed petals, leave the intact and slightly shiny petals, clip them to the blank space of the book, and wait for the petals to be placed in the book. Just leave a light flower print on it.
Flower petal bath
If there are many roses, you can pluck off the petals, discard the outer blackened petals, leave the better petals in the middle, and sprinkle them into warm water for bathing. Taking a bath with rose petals can activate blood circulation, rejuvenate skin, whiten and resist oxidation. Friends who have time and interest may wish to try it and bathe in a sea of roses to become a “scented beauty”.
Propagation by cuttings
There is no need to throw away roses with bright green branches and flower buds even if the flowers are dry. You can cut the branches with flower buds to a length of about 10 cm, remove the flowers and leaves, insert them into moist river sand or vermiculite for cuttings, transplant them into a flower pot after taking root, and you will have a new rose. .
Used as flower fertilizer
After the roses wither, the petals can be collected and placed in potted plants for use as flower fertilizer to promote plant growth.
These are the roses that died this year. Last year, there were many fragrant roses blooming, but I don’t know why they didn’t grow branches in the spring.
It seems that it has been planted for many years, at least more than ten years, and has turned into a tree, blooming every spring, as if it has become a habit.
The roses have bloomed this year, but there is still no movement on the roses. If you look carefully, you can see that the branches are already stiff.
The tenacious roots of the rose tree
First, I went to look for the flowers from last year and the year before. They seemed to be growing well.
When the roses bloom in 2021
Roses bloom in 2021
2020 roses bloom
2020 roses
Maybe it’s too old?
Maybe it was too cold last winter?
Anyway, there are only a few branches left.
Now that the rose has withered, it’s better to dig it out and plant something else.
The roots have grown very thick over the years and seem to be very deep.
Here comes the saw:
I took out a series of three saws, manual ones, from small to large, and tried them one by one, and they didn’t even cut the skin.
Gardening cutting field:
I broke it off and stepped on it, bent one, used garden shears to cut off one branch, and another that was stronger.
Slash with axe:
I took out the newly purchased board ax and chopped hard, but there was no movement. Could it be that the ax was not sharpened?
The shovel digs deep:
Just cut the weeds and dig out the roots with a shovel?
I dug harder and found that the roots were too strong. I accidentally broke the flower pot next to it, which was a little painful. Then I dug harder and the shovel handle broke. It was really sad!
Shovel with broken handle
Electrical tools:
I went to look for my high-powered electric saw, only to find that the charging cable was nowhere to be found. . .
So even now, the roots of the rose are still standing in the ground. . .
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