Wild roses are beautiful and you can harvest both the rose petals and use the rose hips later in the season.
Living in the Canadian mountains, it didn’t take me long to start noticing how many useful plants grew in the area. We began harvesting elderflowers and elderberries, wild thimbleberries, wild edible weeds and soon noticed the wild roses.
Luckily there are many wonderful uses for wild roses (Joybilee Farm shows you how to use wild roses for food & medicine). Rose petals are excellent for homemade body care products, or even for jelly and wine! There are also many food recipes using rose petals, rose syrup and more.
Here’s a round-up of wild rose petal recipes from some inspirational bloggers.
Rose petal jam from Feasting at Home
Peppermint Rose Lip Balm from the Nerdy Farm Wife
Wild rose hand cream from Lovely Greens
Wild rose lotion bars from Grow Forage Cook Ferment
Wild rose sangria from Feasting at Home
Rose flavoured ice cream from eCurry
Rose soap recipe from the Lovely Greens & the Nerdy Farm Wife
Wild rose jelly from Little House Big Alaska
Rose Face & Body Cream from the Nerdy Farm Wife
Rose Petal Wine from Lovely Greens
How to make rose water from the Herbal Academy
Rose petal jam from Feasting at Home
Rose petal salve from the Nerdy Farm Wife
Rose Syrup from the view from great island
Rose pudding from my diverse kitchen
I hope you enjoyed this round-up of wild rose recipes!
I’m curious to know what rose petal wine and syrup tastes like. Is it too flowery? Have you tried it?So far we’ve only made rose water for the bath but it smelled wonderful. Our girls especially liked collecting the wild rose petals, although you have to be careful of the prickly stems. It’s great that you can harvest the petals but still get the rose hips too. Because they would naturally fall off to the ground there’s no wasting the roses by harvesting the petals. We do leave quite a lot on each wild rose plant that we find for the wild pollinators.
So far we’ve only made rose water for the bath but it smelled wonderful. Our girls especially liked collecting the wild rose petals, although you have to be careful of the prickly stems. It’s great that you can harvest the petals but still get the rose hips later in the summer too. Because the rose petals would naturally fall off to the ground there’s no wasting the roses by harvesting the petals. We do leave quite a lot on each plant for the wild pollinators, although around here the plants get to be quite tall, over 10 feet so I can’t reach up that high anyways!
Do you have any favorite rose recipes that I’m missing?
