Blue Roses

On Mothers' Day thousands of roses will be given to moms all over the country. Valentine's Day and Sweetest Day are no different.

Scientists are working on creating a true blue rose. There are still some problems to be worked out to give us a naturally grown blue rose.

The verse roses are red, violets are blue might one day have to be rewritten as they get closer and closer to making a true blue rose. Maybe it will have to go: Roses are red, Roses are blue? We will leave it up to the poem masters to work this out once the blue rose has been worked out.

Roses can be grown in a lot of different colors such as pink, yellow, peach, and even green but so far blue roses can only be made synthetically. One way to make blue roses is to get fresh cut flowers and put their stems in blue-colored water. However this is not permanent, and does not make a naturally grown true blue rose.

Scientists so far have come up with a liver gene that when inserted in the growing rose plant can create a blue bloom however it also makes the stem of the flower blue spotted. One day you will be able to plant blue roses in your garden as easily as you can red.