The Mother's Day flowers we bought after Mother's Day are some two weeks later still in the vase. They survived the heating and while they don't look great, they are still alive with most blooms looking ok. Truly amazing longevity.
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An interesting thing happened with pink flowers that were, it became obvious, dyed.
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The dye filtered down down the stems into the water.
Then the dye in the water filtered up the stems to previously white flowers, giving them a touch of pink. Isn't nature marvellous! Well, not quite nature alone.
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I absolutely love those huge, puffy carnations and they do last very well.
ReplyDeleteI have some of the smaller ones still going after my birthday in April.
Marvellous! Enjoy them!
Oops! wrong flower.
DeleteKylie, are they chrys...... or as Americans call them, mums. They have gone now and its time for some new flowers.
DeleteWhy do they dye ?
ReplyDeleteWhy do we all?
DeleteNature takes its course and all living things dye.
DeleteChrysanthemums do last well, but I wonder why they dyed some of them pink when naturally pink ones should have been available?
ReplyDeleteRiver, your knowledge is beyond mine.
DeleteOsmosis! A year 5 science "experiment" involving a carrot comes to mind, though I can't remember what the carrot had to do with it.
ReplyDeleteMC, an experiment involving a carrot? I am not sure I want to check that out.
DeleteSettle, Andrew! It was year 5. Root vegetables were innocent.
DeleteA trick of the florist. They do last a long time in a vase and always look nice.
ReplyDeleteInside knowledge is always useful Margaret.
DeleteWhite flowers should stay white! Take em back and demand a refund.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you YP. They are defective.
DeleteThey are pretty but they wither fast these days
ReplyDeleteThese flowers lasted a couple of weeks.
DeleteThey have lasted so well and I love the way the white flowers have taken up the red colouring. A fine example of osmosis if you have small children around . . .
ReplyDeleteI don't have small children around JB, and I don't want.
DeleteBiology lab experiments in action.
ReplyDeleteIt is rather, TP.
DeleteWhy do we feel the need to improve on nature and dye flowers would be my question. But that dye is pervasive, fascinating.
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WWW, my thoughts exactly. As if flowers can't cover every shade of every colour.
DeleteIt's magic, Andrew.
ReplyDeleteI could make money Pat, selling kits to kids to watch flowers get colour.
DeleteDahlia flowers? I've never seen the dye from blooms go into the water, very pretty, have a nice week.
ReplyDeleteAmypie, I haven't seen that either. But then I don't generally buy dyed flowers.
DeleteBeautiful.
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda.
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