Blue Roses

[Deleted User]

Any idea where I can get them at a decent price?

uolypool

My sister is very colour co-ordinated in her house as her lounge is blue she use to buy white roses slit the stems and put into a vase of water that had blue food colouring in and this use to urn the roses blue .HTH

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uolypool wrote: »

My sister is very colour co-ordinated in her house as her lounge is blue she use to buy white roses slit the stems and put into a vase of water that had blue food colouring in and this use to urn the roses blue .HTH

Now thats a good idea but I was wondering where I could get real blue ones....

Eric_Pisch

it appears they do not exist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_rose

Blue roses, often portrayed in literature and art as a symbol of love and prosperity to those who seek it, do not exist within nature, due to genetic limitations being imposed upon natural variance

[Deleted User]

Well, I found somewhere that sells them :-

http://www.interrose.co.uk/blue_roses.shtml

Gulp!!! not cheap !!!!

klb_3

But they are white ones dyed as suggested by uolypool

http://www.interrose.co.uk/blue_roses.shtml

Blue Roses just do not exist, commercially speaking that is, however the first blue rose is on it's way as it has been grown by a bunch of mad Australian and Japanese Scientists. The lucky blighters have discovered the holy grail of the rose world!

So, until they are available to order (another 3-7 years we estimate) you will just have to make do with our specially selected white roses that are cut immaturely from the plant and cultivated in blue dye solution so that the blue can grow into the petals as well as the leaves and stems.

[Deleted User]

didnt read that bit !!!!

[Deleted User]

£60 for 12 dyed blue roses !!!!!!

uolypool

wow how much :eek::eek::eek: not very moneysaving i'd go for a couple of pound for 12 white roses off market and a bit of blue food colouring

stebiz

uolypool wrote: »

wow how much :eek::eek::eek: not very moneysaving i'd go for a couple of pound for 12 white roses off market and a bit of blue food colouring

Just thinking the same myself:rotfl::T