Once upon a time when I cared for over 300 roses in my then garden, I would use the spent petals to make pot pourri. I'm sure if you asked for the recipe on here someone would provide it for you. It's really quite simple, and bags of it make great Christmas gifts.

I toss mine in the flowerbed, compost pile, or yard to be mowed over with the mulching blades. If anyone asks for petals, I hand them a bag and tell them to get busy. If you live close enough to me you can come by and get all you wish.

Feed the soil

A little potpourri, 2-3 cups a month for cooking, compost, and mulch with the ones that hit the ground.

Compost!

Mostly they go in the trash, but sometimes my house bunnies get lucky when I'm deadheading. I don't spray so it's safe. They really enjoy them (as I'm sure most of you know first hand, sorry about that) and then after they have rosey breath ;-)

Hi all hope everyone is having a great early Tuesday. I see its a true variety of what people do with rose petals. Roseman that sounds like a very good idea for x-mas gifts.

I wanted to just edit my posted but couldnÂt find away. Does anyone have a recipe for Pot pourri?

Hey all just wanted to share this website that I found for Pot Pourri recipes http://www.easy-homemade-recipes.com/potpourri.html

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Several years ago, before I retired, a fellow employee, knowing I grew roses, asked me if I could bring him some rose petals for his wife to make potpourri. "Sure" I said and proceeded to bring him four large paper shopping bags full of rose petals. Aside from being flabbergasted, he never asked me for rose petals again.

If you tap those you are about to deadhead and everything is dry the petals will fall to the ground and you deadhead what's left. They are colorful and add to the mulch.

Rose petals look very pretty scattered along a walk or on the porch, when you are expecting someone special or just Because. Also, scattered over the garden soil - they are very lovely for a spattering color and even as a mulch :-)

For those of you who use petals for mulch, do you ever worry about the decaying petals breeding insect pests or there being eggs of pests in the bloom that get put back into the soil?

If there are thrips, then yes! Bag em an trash em. ..

We have thrips extra bad this year so I have been bagging all our blooms & placing in the trash...

I like sprinkling them on the stone garden benches under the trellises for no other reason than it looks kinda cool. The chickens always come and eat up the lavender ones and leave the rest "/

Ceramic pomanders filled with rose potpourri & a lavender sprig or clove are lovely for lingerie or linen drawers, hung in cupboards or suspended from coat hangers or hooks. https://tinyurl.com/ycdly8go Rosary beads were originally made from rose petals. Crafted a necklace of those years ago, probably from reading this 1983 article in Mother Earth News. http://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/make-rose-beads-zmaz83jazshe?pageid=2#PageContent2

Like to scatter them as you do, Patti & Sultry, just for their beauty. Birds will sometimes scoop them up or a rabbit or turtle will come by for a nibble. Also dry them in baskets & on copper screens, filling clear glass candy type containers with layers of color or a random mix. Pressed & used on lampshades, on & within ornaments, even in a locket. So many ways to use rose petals, we've only scratched the surface! Sue