FLORAL Rosa
IN THE KITCHEN
All roses are edible (if they haven’t been sprayed with chemicals) but for culinary purposes make sure you grow a strongly scented variety. Before use, remove the yellow heel from the base of the petal with a sharp pair of scissors as this has an unpleasant taste. Fresh petals can be scattered over fruit salads and any sweet, creamy desserts, meringues and cakes. Whole flowers can be added to sugar syrups for preserving or used in jams, jellies and cordials for a floral flavour.
IN THE GARDEN
Choose a rose to suit your space bearing in mind the amount of sun and shade. Buy from a specialist grower in autumn as a bare-root plant – it will arrive looking like a stick with no foliage but will put on growth the following
