forging flowers, thats fun.
if your have the ability to hot forge steel in youre shop you coul take 30mm round stock of iron or steel. now basicly you just forge a realy big nail with the top being round about 150mm sheet 2mm thick. stam about 10mm thick rough round
now cut the top cirkel at about five or six places from the edge straig to the stam. it shoul look like a slices piza with the center still conecting them, holding it together. now jest bend one of the pebles up using pliers and form these in to the center of the rose. now you just wrap the the others around the center. you can use bol peen hamers and stakes to shape sculpt youre rose. it looks verry realistic out of a single piece(witch I find cool for some reason -_-).

if you do not have the stuf to hot forge you can also take copper sheet or anny cold forgeble metal. just weld/silver solder a round cut sheet to the stock you want and go from there, shapin it with what ever hammers you fancy, of cours you could also forge it as it cold as described above from a single piece. did some nice silver jewelry like that in the past.

hope it helps, ambition out

Stephan,

I have several different methods of forging flowers. You can see some good explanations of a few of them at http://www.anvilfire.com/iForge/   There should be something there that will get you on the right track.