This is the best tasting rose that I have ever experienced. It's "Blue Girl", a fragrant rose with soft, thick petals that are like flannel. That fragrance and flavor is from the petals, unlike some flowers where the taste comes from the pollen or the nectar. 

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As the flowers mature, their color lightens but their fragrance gets stronger. The flowers become so large and crowded with petals that it only takes a few to make something worthwhile in the kitchen. 

<center> ![xtsu blue girl.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmP21vyUfvoPHA3RPCWLUzdTfTxPxQRL9wQbZbf8Upw8ZP/xtsu%20blue%20girl.jpg) </center>

In my experience, the most fragrant roses are the ones worth eating. Here's a selection of the roses that I eat from here at Haphazard Homestead. Clockwise, from the upper left, here they are. The mulit-colored pink/red/orange/yellow rose is a Joseph's Coat. The white roses are White Dawn. It's the large climbing rose that the snail is looking at in [Big World for a Little Snail](https://steemit.com/photography/@haphazard-hstead/steemitphotochallenge-entry-2-big-world-for-a-little-snail-spc-42). The yellow ones are my old homestead rose of unknown variety. I introduced it in [This Rose is Worth Eating](https://steemit.com/photography/@haphazard-hstead/colorchallenge-this-rose-is-worth-eating-wednesday-s-yellow), and showed how I made a salad using it and some weeds. Then there's the lavender-purple "Blue Girl". And in the center is a pink miniature rose. 

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I'll show more about how I use these roses. But here's a hint for the rosebuds. I dry them in a dehydrator and store them in a jar. 

Do you eat rose petals? Or do you use them to make anything else? 
 
If you want to see how I use rose petals in salad, check out this post from a few days ago: [This Rose is Worth Eating](https://steemit.com/photography/@haphazard-hstead/colorchallenge-this-rose-is-worth-eating-wednesday-s-yellow).  And for another salad with roses, check out the last salad in this post: [Salads from Trees, Weeds, Flowers and Seeds](https://steemit.com/food/@haphazard-hstead/salads-from-weeds-tree-leaves-flowers-and-seeds-food-challenge-4-15-minute-meals)

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<center> Here are some other Haphazard Homestead flower photos you might enjoy: [Eat Flowers!](https://steemit.com/steemitphotochallenge/@haphazard-hstead/steemitphotochallenge-16-entry-1-eat-flowers-original-photo) // [Pink Flowering Trees](https://steemit.com/photography/@haphazard-hstead/pink-pink-pink-flowering-trees-in-pink-steemitphotochallenge-entry-1-spc-32-7-photos-and-a-quiz-contest) // [Meditation Rose](https://steemit.com/photography/@haphazard-hstead/just-a-single-rose-steemitphotochallenge-entry-3-spc-30) // [The Edible Lawn Daisy](https://steemit.com/nature/@haphazard-hstead/bellis-perennis-too-small-to-be-a-feast-but-still-worth-eating-steemitphotochallenge-entry-2-spc-30-6-photos-and-foraging-tips) // [Bearded Iris: The Hall of Valhalla](https://steemit.com/photography/@haphazard-hstead/bearded-iris-the-hall-of-valhalla-steemitphotochallenge-entry-1-spc-30-9-photos-and-a-flower-tour) // [Tropical Conservatory Tour](https://steemit.com/photography/@haphazard-hstead/beat-the-winter-blues-visit-a-garden-conservatory-6-original-photos-from-the-w-w-seymour-conservatory-in-tacoma-washington) </center>

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