
A close-up of the blue vixen rose.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / General Furry Art
Species Vulpine (Other)
Size 180 x 540px
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Are they true blue roses, or have they been stem-dyed? ;)
One of things we used to do when I used to work in a flower shop, if we wanted blue flowers, we would take some white flowers (roses, carnations, daisies, etc) and place them into a bucket of water with blue food colouring added to it. The stem soaks up the blue dye, turning the white petals blue, thus, creating a blue flower ;) It's an interesting way to make them. One way to check to see if the flower has been stem-dyed, is check the stem. If it has a blue-ish tint or blue-ish look to it, then it's been stem-dyed ;)
I've heard that some botantists or scientists in Australia actually did create a true blue rose, but I haven't heard much other than that...
One of things we used to do when I used to work in a flower shop, if we wanted blue flowers, we would take some white flowers (roses, carnations, daisies, etc) and place them into a bucket of water with blue food colouring added to it. The stem soaks up the blue dye, turning the white petals blue, thus, creating a blue flower ;) It's an interesting way to make them. One way to check to see if the flower has been stem-dyed, is check the stem. If it has a blue-ish tint or blue-ish look to it, then it's been stem-dyed ;)
I've heard that some botantists or scientists in Australia actually did create a true blue rose, but I haven't heard much other than that...
Yeah, sometimes when I used to frequent the marketplace in Ottawa (Canada), I would see blue carnations a lot, and there's no such thing as an actual blue carnation. Most of the time, they would stem-dye them...at the flower shop I used to work at, sometimes the florist would use a special spray-paint made for flowers, which also made them look really pretty too! :)
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