A Dozen and A Half Roses
18 Roses Creating A Rose Garden Bouquet
If I were to choose one piece of fine jewelry that I really wanted the world to know about, it would be this bracelet. It’s a magnificent piece of jewelry, and I am surprised they are still able to make this as well as they did 50 years ago. It’s a gem in gold. I worked in Cross’ jewelry-making shop from 1962-1970. One of the things I did was soldering with a torch, flowing gold to create a bond between two precious metals. This bracelet is made in pink and green gold. The roses are part of the original bracelet and are all 14-karat pink gold. The three leaves between each pink rose are green gold and individually soldered into place.
100% Perfect
As someone who did high-temperature precious metal soldering, I’ve studied every one of these contemporary rose garden bracelets to see if I can find leaves with missing solder. With 36 contact points, I am in awe that 100% of everything is perfect. They were made perfectly a half-century ago. They are still made perfectly in our 21st-century world. As a former shop person, I’ve studied every one of these rose garden bracelets. They all pass the quality test beautifully.
Rabbits Love Munching Rosebuds
Soil, sun, water, fertilizer, bug spray, tending the garden, watching out for bugs. Did you know that rabbits, squirrels, and deer love munching rosebuds? If you give a dozen roses, at the average cost of $88, every month for ten years, it would cost over $10,000. This bracelet with 1½ dozen roses is less than the 10-year run of a dozen roses. And, because this bracelet is really well made in real gold, in 100 years this bracelet will still be around. We estimate a 100-year, 200-year, 300-year lifespan for one of these Rose Garden bracelets. How many generations will your new bracelet reach? At least ten or more.
Longevity
Roses grown in your garden typically last for 15-20 years. Cut roses last 7-10 days. This rose garden bracelet in pink and green gold you can expect 100 years, 200 years, 300 years and more. We guarantee it. When the bracelet is new, it looks great. In a year or ten years, with the patina of time, it looks even better. It would be nice if cars could age so well.
How Long Can They Continue?
I asked our maker how long they could continue to make this bracelet. He pondered the question and said he didn’t know. He said, “My best crafts-people are getting old. So much time goes into this bracelet, I just don’t know.” I don’t often ask questions like this of our partners. I asked about this bracelet because it’s from a lost world of jewelry making.
This Bracelet Has Heft
When you hold this bracelet in your hand, you will feel its heft. When you wear it on your wrist, it whispers its creation story to you. Its story is real gold alloyed green for leaves and pink for roses. It’s still made as they made jewelry in the 1950s. It’s solid, non-apologetically solid, and when worn, you feel its presence at your wrist. In the sun, it glows, and the contrast of pink roses and green leaves become a signature of the owner. So important and distinctive a design, it may be recognized even before you are recognized.
A Lady Who Loved Flowers
I dated a lady who loved flowers genuinely, authentically, and sincerely. I’d never known a woman who was so deeply moved by flowers. Yes, many women like flowers, but none of the women I’ve known caressed petals, savored the smell or were deeply moved by the delicacy of color. I miss that level of sincerity of touch by the lady who was so deeply moved by flowers.
On one side of my house, I had a tea rose garden. On the other side of the house, for her birthday, I had a 40-foot section of the hill behind a stone wall cleared, tilled, and mulched. I took her flower shopping and said, “You can have any flowers you want,” and we filled the pickup truck. Its backseat was filled, and she had two flowers in her lap in the front. It took us several days to plant everything.
Nancy’s Flower Garden
The garden looked awesome. For two years, it bloomed like there was no stopping it. In year three, weeds began inviting themselves to share rich soil and water. In year four, I will admit my weeding skills are a bit weak. In year five, nature is a powerful force, and the garden was 50/50. In year six, nature had won. Weeds really loved the enriched soils.
The Tea Rose Garden
The other half of the story was on the other side of the house, where my pink tea rose garden was planted 30 years ago. This also is a flower garden built behind a stone wall. There were seven rose bushes. Thirty years later, there are still seven rose bushes, and every spring and summer, thousands of roses. Again, my admission is that I’m not a weeder or bug spray person, or even a watering guy. There are moments in June and early July when the tea rose garden looks like the Boston Flower Show. It’s a site to behold.
Someday, When I’m Old
My conclusion, tea roses with their thorns are well protected and are practically indestructible. Growing roses (tea roses) seem to be eternal. Someday, when I’m old, I’ll have more time for the fine arts or gardening. Maybe. For now, in my younger years, I’m still building stone walls. Anyone who has an awesome flower garden has put in hundreds of hours. A well-tended flower garden should be honored and respected by everyone.
He Loved His Garden
In an earlier neighborhood I lived in, I stopped one morning to compliment a man on his knees hunched over a properly tended rose garden on his lawn. He was clipping, trimming, pruning, enhancing soils, and applying bug spray. We talked. Everything about the exterior of his house was as neat as a pin. Even the lawn edging along his neatly tarred driveway was perfect. I remember thinking as I walked away that his roses every year looked awesome and I don’t ever want to go to that level of dedication for flowers and yard work. So I planted tea roses and let nature do what it wanted around the new plants.
Why We Love This Bracelet
It’s a treasure from the past, still made in a moment of the far future. If you are one of the lucky ones to acquire one of these magnificent bracelets, you and generations to come will be thrilled to wear such a piece of craftsmanship. It looks awesome on your wrist, too.
We would like to find homes for one hundred of these rose bracelets in 2025 and 2026 because they are so beautiful. The truth is, though, we don’t know how long this Rose Garden Bouquet Bracelet will continue to be made. The only thing we can be certain of is that we have two right now. If you click and buy or call to order, this bracelet will arrive at your house quickly. Shipping is always fast, safe, and free anywhere in the U.S.A.
