TRUE OR FALSE?

Mylesie

TRUE OR FALSE?
　

TRUE
These rainbow roses were developed by a Dutch flower supplier Peter van der Werken who produced them by injecting natural pigments into the stems while they were growing. The dyes are produced from natural plant extracts and are absorbed by the flowers as they grow.

DaireQuinlan

Gardening forum : http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1059

trooney

Mylesie wrote: »

TRUE OR FALSE?

Totally

Martron

I reckon that pic is a photoshop job. ( hence maybe why its in here)

i am not a botanist and have no idea how flowers grow. but common sense would tell me that if you injected a colour into the stem all the petals would be that colour. and worse case the petals would be a muddle of all the colours or the petals would have horizontal stripes of coulor

so i say false and the picture has been edited

smelltheglove

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_rose

Martron

Dam you smell the glove i was trying to sound clever.........

should this picture not be in the gardening forum then!!!:o

Thecageyone

I'm thinking most girls would still prefer red roses

Slidinginfinity

Thecageyone wrote: »

I'm thinking most girls would still prefer red roses

For some reasons the roses make me think of clowns.:eek:
Wife hates clowns, ergo wife would hate these roses.;)

Martron

the gf hates roses too. reminds her of funerals..........

Thecageyone

Imagine those ones above at a funeral!?

Mylesie

Martron wrote: »

I reckon that pic is a photoshop job. ( hence maybe why its in here)

i am not a botanist and have no idea how flowers grow. but common sense would tell me that if you injected a colour into the stem all the petals would be that colour. and worse case the petals would be a muddle of all the colours or the petals would have horizontal stripes of coulor

so i say false and the picture has been edited

Well - have you checked it out on SNOPES.COM?

Thecageyone

Snopes say the photo is not doctored but the roses are, pretty much. As they are basically dyed while growing, natural dyes or not, there is no such flower that grows on it's own.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/rainbowroses.asp

DaireQuinlan

Mylesie wrote: »

Well - have you checked it out on SNOPES.COM?

And here I was thinking this was a photography forum, not "Ripley's believe it or not"

Thecageyone

Photo could be sharper and it's badly cropped :P

smelltheglove

Lol Martron.

I've seen these before, can't stand them, I love fresh flowers and can't imagine in my wildest dream why someone would purposely ruin their perfection!

Nforce

Would go perfectly with one of these limited edition VW's....







:P

Mylesie

I like it - I like it:D:D:D