I used a metal adhesive for outdoor use to glue the flowers together. This glue requires mixing two substances together and then working within 5 minutes. Use proper safety protection like gloves and a mask when working with chemicals like this. it doesn't really matter how you do this, as long as you end up with four 50mm squares, and one 50mmx25mm rectangle) Irises grow from rhizomes. They produce blade-like leaves. The Copper Iris produces flowers of a coppery orange or reddish-brown hue. Each flower has three petal-like sepals that either spread wide or arch downwards. The Ameilia’s Kaleidoscope Begonia has a kaleidoscopic form of coppery- bronze juvenile leaves that become chartreuse-lime as they mature. There’s a netting pattern to the leaves. The colors are richer and deeper in the summertime. Pink flowers erupt in winter. 27. Caladium Desert Sunset

A cultivar of the Pompom, or Ball Dahlia, this richly-coloured flower has rounded, fully double, blooms. The petals are partly incurved.Spring Breeze Copper is a perennial wallflower. The pretty copper-orange flowers are scented, and attract bees and butterflies. The foliage is evergreen with narrow grey-green leaves. 24. Tillandsia Crocata Penny Orange

Although saffron in name, rather than copper, there’s definitely a copper tint to this bloom. It would certainly look good with other copper hued blooms. So, after lots of requests from the internet and my friends, I thought I'd upload a step-by-step guide to making a rose out of sheet copper and steel/brass rod. Of course, this is not a definitive guide - I saw a similar flower on the internet and wasn't completely satisfied with it, so modified it to suit what I wanted in a project. So feel free to adapt and change as you go along; as long as you don't just steal my idea and call it your own, I'm fine with it. A big, big thank you to everyone who did vote for this in the Valentines 2013 Contest - I won! Thank you so much, it was an incredible surprise. Also, a big thank you to my very tolerant parents, my helpful DT teacher, and Jeffery Santo at Darkmoon Metals, who gave the initial inspiration for this project. The Turk’s Head cactus can be identified by the cephalium that protrudes from the top. The copper coloring of the ‘cap’ is why this fascinating plant is included. Undoubtably, your petals will now be slightly overlapping due to the copper being spread out slightly over those cuts you made. This will prevent us from shaping them easily, so we want to remove that overlap - simply use your tinsnips to make those cuts again, in the same places, and the overlap will drop off and the petals should be nicely separate. In the photos, I'm going to be making two roses (to demonstrate the normal method, and the workaround method) so don't worry if what you're doing doesn't match up exactly - though everything should be obvious enough.The more times you do this, the easier it is to judge when the colour is just right and how long it takes to heat it to that state - practice, and you'll be doing it in no time! Cut all the corners off each blank. You want to remove enough copper so that you end up with something that looks like this: These copper garden art flowers will bloom all year round and I hope that the copper will patina into a lovely green color as they weather outdoors.

Having cleaned your blanks to your satisfaction, take your first square, and thread it onto the stem. Take your next one, and repeat, but align it so that it's petals cover the cuts in the square below, and only overlap slightly with the petals below them, like this:

There aren’t many naturally copper-colored flowers but we’ll have a look at a few examples. There is also the option to burnish flowers in copper. Photo Disclaimer – Images used in this article are owned by the respective individuals, artists, or other parties who post on their private social media accounts. These images only serve for inspiration and cannot be copied (images or the designs) for personal use. See Footer for more details. See here for more details. 1. Copper Iris (Iris Fulva) Right! Now that you've worked your way through that rather long list of tools, we can move on to the materials you'll need. I happen to have the last three things lying around at home or in my school workshop, so I didn't put links as to where I got them from - if you do happen to fund a good source for some, just put it in the comments and I'll add it in. The photos show the blooms for just one stem so you can see this a bountiful and exuberant plant. It would grace any garden with glory! The rich color looks amazing in darker spaces. 8. Ornamental Pepper

Begin by taking your rectangle and folding one of the petals up and around the rivet. It can be very useful to start at the part of the petal that is closest to the stem, and work outwards - that applies for all this shaping. If at any point the metal becomes unworkable, stop - you can't force it. Simply anneal that section of the copper (by tactical application of a blowtorch, for example) and keep going. You really don't want to break one petal now. Take your copper sheet. Remove any protective plastic so that you are faced with a clean sheet, and mark one edge every 50mm (~2"). Repeat on the other side. Using your scribe and a ruler, draw lines across the width of your copper to divide it up into four 50x50mm squares, with one 25x50mm rectangle left over.Ok, so you've gathered your equipment, and bought/salvaged your materials. Now, turn on some of your favourite music, grab a drink, and get to work on this first stage. If you want to make yourself a copper rose have a look at the set of instructions here and make the lovely copper rose pictured. 14. Brown Calla Lily