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Is your love like a blue blue rose?
The worlds first blue roses have been on display at the International Flower Expo in Tokyo and will be on sale to the public by next Autumn.
They have been genetically modified and implanted with a gene which cleverly synthesises pigments from pansies.
It was the first time that these blue roses had been on display in public and they are attracting a lot of attention because they are really unusual.
The beautiful roses were developed by an Australian based company, a subsidiary of Suntory. The company has invested the sum of three billion yen to make these blue roses and also blue carnations, this project has been ongoing since 1990.
Scientists for the company were the first to implant the gene that produces Delphinidin, the pigment that will produce a vivid blue hue and is not naturally found in roses.
It was four years ago that the very first genetically modified blue roses were produced however there was further research required in order to make them safe to grow.
Roses have been cultivated for over 5,000 years and it is said there are approximately 25,000 different species of roses. The common colour of roses are red, pink, white and yellow.
The blue rose is said to denote unrequited love as it symbolises a quest for the impossible. This seems to make sense!
The blue roses that you have been able to buy in florists in recent years were actually created by using dye to stain the petals of white roses. The Suntory roses are thought to be the 1st true blue roses.
The blue roses were featured along with 860 exhibits which were being displayed at the 5th annual IFEX. This is the largest garden show and flower show and attracted over 32,000 visitors over the course of one weekend.
Another attraction included “glow in the dark” roses which have been modified to light up in the dark!
What is the name of a blue flower that looks like it could be related to a daffodil?
How about Canterbury Bells campanula?
http://www.paghat.com/cupsaucer2.html
http://www.about-garden.com/a/en/1704-campanula-medium-calycanthema-mix-canterbury-bells-cup-and-saucer/
Coming up roses (Miami Herald)
When Will Ryman was approached nine months ago about exhibiting his larger-
than-life sculptures at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, he knew it wouldn't
be easy.
At the time, the Manhattan-born artist's fiberglass sculptures of roses and
bugs were being displayed in a highly acclaimed public art exhibit called 65th
Street along posh Park Avenue in Manhattan.
The 30-foot-tall, realistically detailed pink- and red-pedaled roses and bugs
-- about as as big as a beagle -- provided a stark contrast with the concrete-
filled streets in the dead of winter.
But at Fairchild, his flower sculptures would be set against a backdrop of a
real 83-acre garden in sunny South Florida. How to make them fit in?
"You can't compete with the garden, you have to accentuate it -- you have to
have a dialogue with it," Ryman said.
So in April, he started working on a new set of rose and insect fiberglass
sculptures tailored for Fairchild. The end result was a six different sets of
colossal sculptures (one borrowed from Park Avenue) called "The Desublimation
of the Rose" that built off the symbolic meaning of the New York exhibit.
"I wanted to show the arc of ...
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