How can I preserve a rose?

Someone very special to me gave me a Rose a couple days ago and I would like to preserve it.

How can I preserve a rose?
Try this way and your rose will preserve for YEARS and be far more durable than just a simply drying it...





Hang it up side down, perhaps suspended by a string around the stem or in a hole if you have those find of tiles. THEN, while its still hanging, dip or spray your rose with polysurathane or some other clear gloss. You'll want to put some newspaper under it incase it drips.





Good luck
Reply:Smash it in a book or I put one in the freezer in a baggie like 5 years ago and it's still in good shape. I keep it in the door and watch to not smash it.
Reply:You can dry it by hanging it upside down or get a cheap pan and heat up some wax and dip it-my Mom used to do this and they were beautiful. I suppose you could also dip it in that clear stuff they use with silk flowers to make it look like water is in the vase-I've seen it in craft stores-try an experimental flower first.
Reply:try the stem with string and hang it upside down to dry...it a dark area...ie basement....or you can put it in a book to press it...put a weight..on top..ie other books.
Reply:Hang it upside down right away for a few weeks.. It will dry.
Reply:Air drying or hanging is the easiest and best method for preserving flowers. As a general rule, flowers need only to have the leaves removed and to be hung upside down in a warm, dry, dark place until the moisture content is greatly reduced. An attic, closet, or pantry is often an ideal place; avoid basements, porches, or garages, where dampness may ruin specimens.





Divide the flowers into small bunches to avoid crowding or crushing. The stems of the flowers can be tied together with twine, wire, pipe cleaners, rubber bands, or anything that will hold them securely yet not break the stems. Hang the flowers from a nail driven into an attic rafter, along the wall of a closet, from coat hangers suspended from a crossbar, from a clothesline or from a self-supporting drying rack.





Air drying flowers may take from one to two weeks or more depending on the moisture content of the cut stems and relative humidity. Some flowers should be picked for air drying in the bud stage, or partially opened, as they will continue to open while drying. Others must be picked when they are fully mature.
Reply:If you carefully bury it in fresh new kitty litter for a couple of days it will maintain it's shape and color as it dries.
Reply:I love roses...I have all the most special ones ( graduation, Valentines and even my Dad's Funeral) to me displayed in my room. After you get roses you should always trim the stem at an angle %26amp; put them in water( they usually come w/ a packet of nutrients to mix in). When your done enjoying them...take the roses and hang them upside down by the stem; then spray them with hairspray. Let them hang dry for about 1 week spraying them every couple of days. Once they've dried you can arrange them in a vase or wall sconce, even as curtain tie backs!!
Reply:well, I'm afraid it's gonna get dried out. most people flatten it and keep it in their journals or scrapbook it or something if it's special to them. flatten it before it dries though, if you dont then it will crumple up and flake.
Reply:just let it sit out of water on a table, it will dry in perfect confidition, orrr.


press it


find a heavy book


place 2 sheets of white paper around the live rose (before it dies ) and put it in the back of the book ( heavy part on top of the rose) in a week or so, carefully take the rose out of the book and papers.


set the rose on top of some pretty paper (scrapbook paper or wrapping paper) and put it in a frame


i do it all the time :)
Reply:The day after I get roses I hang them upside down, it dryes them out and they still keep most of there color. I dont know how long it takes maybe around a week or 2.