Friday, 8 March 2013

Blue Roses ...

Did you know you cannot grow blue roses? Don’t worry, 8C is going to teach you how to create blue roses!

1. Cut a white rose and put it in a small vase.
2.  Put some blue food colouring in the water in the vase.
3. Leave it for 12 hours.
4. Boom! You’ve got a blue rose!

Today in science we looked at flower stems and how they supply the water to the flower. The water travels through the stem and feeds the flower. I found it interesting that because the flowers had been cut from their plant 9 hours before the flower was thirsty. We put in some red food colouring and in just 10 minutes the white roses started to turn a peachy colour. We did the same with the blue colouring and it had the same effect. I found the roses surprising as blue is not a colour of roses in nature.

Some facts about blue roses from Wikipedia


Written by N.

Blue and Red Roses


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  2. Hi 8C,

    Can you remember the names of the two tubes that transport the water and nutrients through the plant?

    Five dojo points for first person to answer! Ha ha! :)

    Mrs C-M

  3. 5 dojo points for Juliette, Abby, Nadia, got your comments up really fast! Well done!

  4. My question is will I get some blue roses today?

  5. this was really fun

  6. Oosh that sounds AWESOME!!!!
    My Favourite Colour is Blue
    ans Ive always wanted to see
    A blue rose. My Mum has A whole
    lot of roses in her garden so I might
    take some and turn them Blue!!!

    I can post a video up on how to do that :) but the version you saw isnt actually the correct way of doing it :P I will ask my teacher if he can put up the actual thing of me doing it and I will also ask him if I can put up a video of me teaching you how to do it :)

    Room 5
    Melville Int. School

