The transplanted rugosa rose is doing well, very healthy and having a lot of flowers now. I will go in the evening to collect the petals of wide open flowers, after insects have enjoyed their nectar and knowing that in a bit of wind they will fall down. Nip off the flower heads afterward and more buds will come.
I add the petals into a jar of raw honey, from my hives, and let int steep in it. At the end of the year I will have fragrant rose honey.
I use only rugosa wild rose, because mose cultivated rose are hybrid with camelia, giving the petal a mild astringent taste.
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