The Cellar - Mar 19, 2011: It is spring: DIY rainbow roses!

The Cellar (http://cellar.org/index.php)

- Image of the Day (http://cellar.org/forumdisplay.php?f=10)

- - Mar 19, 2011: It is spring: DIY rainbow roses! (http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=24754)

morethanpretty

03-19-2011 07:01 AM

Mar 19, 2011: It is spring: DIY rainbow roses!

I do not have a garden, or a green thumb, but for those of you who are so talented here is one special idea for this year.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/...3a841aff_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/...a69babf4_b.jpg

Quote:

In 2004, two dutch companies, River Flowers and F.J. Zandbergen, experimented and successfully grew a rose that had its petals rainbow colored. As petals get their nourishment through stem, the idea is to split the stem into several channels and dip each one in a different colored water. This way all the colors will be drawn by the stem into petals and resultant rose will have all the colors in it. The same method can be applied to other flowers especially to Chrysanthemum and Hydrangea. You can use the same idea to color any flower, anyway you like.

Linkie!

Sundae

03-19-2011 07:07 AM

Oh wow - gorgeous.
I certainly couldn't be bothered to grow them, but if I have won the £90m Euromillions rollover this weekend I will certainly make sure I have a vase of them in my house.

Trilby

03-19-2011 07:37 AM

Grateful Dead Head Roses!

Me likey!

casimendocina

03-19-2011 09:39 AM

WOW!

monster

03-19-2011 03:01 PM

Horrible. Clever, but an abomination.

Gravdigr

03-19-2011 04:28 PM

Quote:

As petals get their nourishment through stem, the idea is to split the stem into several channels and dip each one in a different colored water.

Haven't we been doing this on the kitchen table since we were eight?

ETA: Still makes for purty pictures...

Cloud

03-19-2011 05:13 PM

beautiful! I want a framed photo

skysidhe

03-19-2011 06:06 PM

I think it is beautiful too. It can't be any more difficult than coloring easter eggs. Probably.

wolf	03-19-2011 06:39 PM

I've done that single-color only, to daisies and celery.

I think every American Kid does the celery thing when learning about capillary action.

What I would like to know is how they got the colors so vibrant ... I'm used to them coming up paler. I guess it's a higher concentration of the dye, but man. that's saturated.

I assume they're staring with white roses.

What I'm not getting is how they do that without killing the rose ... article says it's done while they are growing.

Adak	03-20-2011 03:28 AM

Quote:

I assume they're staring with white roses.

Oh yeah! Staring at red roses too long, is bad for the eyes. ;) ;)

SPUCK

03-21-2011 03:29 AM

Yep the cellary!

No wait! Weren't these roses from the side of the road near an underpass?

Pete Zicato

03-21-2011 09:12 AM

Seemed like a nice desktop wallpaper except for the size.

google images turns up larger versions.

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 09:32 PM.