Not sure what variety I have, some sort of bouquet rose bushes. Gotta be 20-30 years old if not older. Insanely aromatic. Any ideas on how market and sell / added value goods I can make? I know mothers day is coming up but my bushes bloom the week before. I gave some to the mail lady who was ecstatic to receive them.
I've never smelled any roses like these. Grocery store or florist roses don't smell anywhere near as fragrant as these. No chemicals and fertilized by my chickens.
Will save the petals for use in herbal teas if all else fails. Trying to make the urban homestead and usda registered farm economically viable. Im experimenting with propagating the bushes as another revenue stream.
I appreciate any advice!
by stepwn
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you could dry the petals and use them for bunch of things https://www.bloomandwild.com/the-blog/what-to-do-with-rose-petals
Wow, these are gorgeous, you should 100% try Facebook marketplace or local fb groups that allow promo
Mother’s Day / the weekend is only a few days away I’m sure there are people who would see this as part of the window for buying flowers & you could totally market it as a Mother’s Day thing (if u can keep it short and sweet you can even emphasize that your bushes bloom around Mother’s Day and they’re most fresh right now)
https://creativecanning.com/rose-petal-jelly/
You can make them into jelly, if they’re grown with food safety in mind.
https://leitesculinaria.com/104920/recipes-candied-rose-petals.html
You can candy them, too.
$25 for a bouquet seems pretty steep. maybe consider dropping your prices.
I was always taught by the older generation of ladies in my life that when buying roses you need to buy them before they open all the way that way they last longer.
I LOVE scented oils, grab a neutral scented oil, dry those flowers out completely and stuff them in the oil for a cold oil infusion. I speed mine up by having them in the sun/keeping them on top of warm machines. The long wait is worth the sweet scent
Tey to make deals with local florists or restaurants?
Ngl rose is a very, very, strong flavor. It’s easy to mess up. So its better used for its scent. You infuse oils with it and then use those to make products. Glycerin soaps with rose extract and some petals mixed into the batch sell well. Especially because people can see the petals in the cleay Glycerin soap.
Could you make rose water?
Roses are niche enough that you probably have to do some extra planning to make decent money from them; they’re not like veggies that fly off the shelves.
You can either sell them super cheap, do some kind of marketing thing around town (idk what really but worth considering), get a deal with a business, or make some food product from them. The flavor of roses is extremely good and memorable, so if you had rose flavored lemonade, ice cream, jam or syrup I imagine people would buy it. I sold weird stuff like jewel weed and mint by making deals with herbal suppliers and ice cream makers. If I had to pick one I’d say try and make them into ice cream because I bet it’s phenomenal and that’s the kind of local gimmick product I can see being a lasting success.
Just wandering by here to tell you I love the photo of your dog smiling next to the roses.
Potpourri bags if they dry out.
Sorry that happened to you OP, but you know what? I’d buy your roses. They look amazing.
Make rose oil and water
They are already all open. How long would they last now?
Hang them upside down to dry them.
Have you thought about working with locals in the wedding/event industry?
Curious if you were trying to sell them this blown open? Anyone familiar with cut flowers would know they wouldn’t survive long after bringing them home at this late stage. Plus, roses are pretty available at grocery stores for a cheaper price. If you lowered your price a bit more, and sold them before they were close to being done, you may have better luck?
Hang them upside down and sell dried bouquets in the winter. 🥰
Donate them to a nursing home.
What part of the world are you in? I’d maybe buy a few dozen for 25 in Tennessee?
Are those out in the sun like that all day?
I like to put rose petals in sugar and let it sit for a while. Then use it to make delicious baked goods! Or, if you don’t want to sell food, you could use the petals to make sugar or salt scrubs.
Why not $2 each? People or more likely to impulse buy one or a few roses. Plus have the cash for that on hand.
Oh I made beads from dried rose petals there is a article in mother earth news. In the old days they use to make rosaries out of these beads so when you touched them you would smell the roses again. I found the article. [https://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/make-rose-beads-zmaz83jazshe/](https://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/make-rose-beads-zmaz83jazshe/)
Take the dried rose and snip the stem off. Then put it in a ziplock bag with fragrance … could be rose essential oil. Wait a week and boom. Potpourri
$25 for a dozen that have been sitting out in the sun is a lot. Also, is that for one dozen stems, or are you counting multi blooms on one stem as multiple roses in the dozen? Dozen should mean 12 full stems.
At this price, they need to be picked early in the morning, at the correct bud opening stage, and kept cool and shaded until purchase. They should also be long and straight stems at that price.
You could look into drying them and selling dried rose bouquets as a second product offering! That way you can accumulate more stock if you don’t have the right number of roses ready to cut at the same time.
If you are in the United States download next door and you can advertise on there you’re bouquets the day of and you’ll have more traction because they’re your neighbors!