a rose by any other name

[piranha]

i saw this rose at the grocery store of all places. unfortunately it was in a bouquet and there's no chance i could find out the cultivar. i am not usually crazy about roses, but i really like the colour combination of light chartreuse and blush/cerise of this one, and i wouldn't mind growing it. guess a visit to a nursery is in my near future (oh what a hardship).

no walking today. it was raining, and i got bills together so the paramour could do taxes, and after that i mostly wanted to vegetate. aside from reading more interesting discussion from smart people about things set in motion by ferrett-the-boob (but leaving that particular idiocy far behind).

Comments

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

This is so beautiful and sensual; it reminds me of a Georgia O'Keeffe painting.

reminds me of a Georgia O'Keeffe painting

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

art imitates life imitates art imitates life... :)

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

That is lovely and unusual. It shouldn't be hard to find out the cultivar, I can't imagine there are many pink-and-green roses.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

It's possible it's dyed, unfortunately. If you put food coloring in the water of a flower, the flower will change color (which is cool!). Some bouquet flowers are colored like that--especially carnations, of course.

On the other hand, there's a fairly simple mutation in roses that causes chlorophyl (spelling?) to remain in the petals, making green roses. If you bred that mutation to a pink-tipped rose, you would get that combination. So, dunno.

Thought I would come by and say hi, by the way. I'll admit I mostly added you for the photography *grin*. You know you have a great eye, don't you?

green roses

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

ah, i didn't think of dyeing, mainly because ... it didn't look dyed, *heh*. which means nothing of course, since they could have gotten better at it. i know they dye carnations with abandon, but i don't think of roses the same way, maybe because there seem so many interesting cultivars as it is (though i expect they dye blue roses if somebody insists on that). and how do you get the rose to just show the dye colour at the tips of the petals? now i want to add food colouring to cut flowers. :)

i've seen a couple of green roses, one kind that looked similar to the viridiflora tulips, with streaks (that was a china rose, i think), but none of them were hybrid teas. interesting to know about the mutation (chlorophyll) -- thanks!

also thanks for the compliment. yeah, this series has shown me that i do have a good eye even for things i walk past every day. which is really fun.

i'm adding you back because of the good stuff you said in some of the great discussions post ferrett-the-boob's initial idiocy.

Re: green roses

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

and how do you get the rose to just show the dye colour at the tips of the petals?

I was thinking that the green part might be dye, if they were trying to imitate the natural mutation. The pink tips are fairly common.

I have the viridiflora tulip in the front yard, by the way. They're in the small bed of "fancy tulips" near the front door. There are plainer tulips in the shade garden, intended more for an en masse effect.

Re: green roses

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

but the chartreuse is lighter than the pink, how would that work?

ok, so i looked up dyeing plants with food colouring, and it turns out the outside of the petals changes colour _first_.

i really like those viridiflora tulips, especially "golden artist" and "greenland". one of these days... i do need some early bloomers. i never think far enough ahead for spring bulbs.

Re: green roses

[dr-brat.livejournal.com]

but the chartreuse is lighter than the pink, how would that work?

Start with a white rose with pink tips. The dye will only color the white and the tips will stay pink.

Re: green roses

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

that would work for the darker pink, but not for the really light tones (there are reasons why this looks natural to me, and the spread of tonality is one of them).

Re: green roses

[dr-brat.livejournal.com]

There are also several rose cultivars whose name includes Chartreuse, but I couldn't find pictures of any of them other than "Chartreuse" which is a very deep pink, almost magenta.

[srunning.livejournal.com]

It looks a lot like 'Peace', but the inner portion of the petal tends more to yellow than green. I suspect that may have more to do with the culture of the environment. Another similar rose is 'Sheer Bliss' which is much lighter (the picture on the web doesn't do it justice.) I have both of these in my garden (from Jackson & Perkins) and they are 'garden-variety' as opposed to commercial.