If you have never tried and experienced ‘fragrant cooking / eating’ you just don’t know what you are missing out on.

Now if are within cooee distance of Edible Flower Food Fest at SouthPark tomorrow then you should get on over there and  see what it is all about.

Of course for those of you who already enjoy this type of culinary delight don’t need any convincing – here are the details:

When: 7:15 p.m. Thursday

Admission: $18. Reservations required.

Where: Buffalo Inn, Buffalo Drive, South Park.

Details: 412-835-2112

Of course we are most interested in the recipe for Rose Petal Ice-Cream.

A stampede of flower power awaits dinner guests tomorrow at the Buffalo Inn in South Park.

Nasturtiums, lilacs and roses will flavor appetizers to desserts at the 2009 Edible Flowers Food Fest, which is in its ninth year.

Allegheny County Parks horticulturist Denise Schreiber — also a certified food handler — annually organizes the feast and prepares the foods with help from area master gardeners. She serve as many as 200 people of all ages at the yearly buffet.

This year, menu choices will include Lemon Verbena Salmon, Artichoke Chicken Salad with Jasmine Rice, Naughty Nasturtium Pasta, Lavender Shortbread, Lilac Jelly and Serviceberry-Raspberry Soup.

All guests will receive recipes, preparation tips and lists of edible and inedible flowers.

Read more about the fabulous here 2009 Edible Flowers Food Fest.

Follow these links if you want to get your hands on some more unique Recipes With Roses like the Exotic Persian Watermelon Salad

Please drop by and let us know if you went to SouthPark, what you tried, saw, did etc – we would just love to hear about it all.  If you take any photos…send them in, if you like we will publish them in our Hall of Fame.

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Think of wine  and you think  ‘aged or mature’.

When it comes to Roses some of the ‘old-fashioned roses’ are the absolute glamour girls and guys of the garden and are as romantic as they sound. Some of course date back to 1860 or even earlier.

Old Roses have a reputation for being hardy, disease resistant with wonderful fragrances.  These grand ‘mature specimens of the rose garden‘ suit the beginner and expert and also astoundingly environmentally friendly.

The list of old roses can go on and on, but if you want to know ‘The expert’s pick of the 10 best once-flowering, and repeat-flowering, old roses then just click on and follow The 10 Best Old Roses and enjoy!!

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To quote him exactly, here is what he said:

“It is now apparently utterly oafish behavior to turn up at a Parisian dinner party with a bunch of shop-bought flowers or a box of marron-glacés. The annoyingly cutting-edge thing to do is to present your host with a few roses, or even a herb plant, “from my little garden in Normandy”.

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Competitors from all around the South Coast went along to enter their blooms – there were 112 categories in all, with countless varieties on show.  If you have any photos of some of   them please send them in so that we can feature them in our hall of fame.

To the winners – hearty, hearty, hearty congratualtions from our Rose Cottage team.

To those who did not win – why not entering your photos of your entries in the Rose Garden Mania Hall of Fame Competition.  If you are interested, just pop us an Email and we will send you the details.

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Yes, Roses are both Beautiful and Smart - Just ask the Rose Farmers in Yongdeng County, North West China.

I just loved this story and what an eye opener, in more ways than one.

We all know about the roses reputation as the “flower of love,” representing both romance and passion – this story from  the Beijing Review certainly deserves retelling.

The article in the Beijing Review reports that fFarmers in Yongdeng County, in northwest China’s Gansu Province, have found a new reason to fall in love—a local variety of  rose has become the their pot of gold.

The article s goes on to say that local government data indicates that 2,000 hectares, or half of the county’s lands, are dedicated to growing roses, which accounts for 70 percent of China’s total.

Yongdeng has its own well-known brand of roses. Because the county’s Kushui Township grows China’s best roses. The Kushui rose is the result of crossbreeding between two different species, according to Yu.

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