My son brings me lovely bouquets of cut flowers and its such a pleasure when glancing up from reading, knitting or working on the computer to see the beautiful colors of the blossoms. Preservative comes with the flowers and if adding it to the water in the vase, the flowers stay fresh for days. By refreshing the water as needed, the flowers continue looking bright and lovely, extending their vase life for an amazingly long time.
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| Colored Flowers |
Sometimes a strange thing happens to the refreshed water in the vase; it becomes stained the same color as one of the flowers! The first time I had seen this phenomenon, the vase water took on the same intense pink color of the daisies in a bouquet of various flowers of different colors.
Researching the net with DuckDuckGo.com, I found that florists use food dye to enhance flower colors. White carnations or daisies can be changed into other colors as well as roses.
Its also a very easy thing to do at home.
To create a rainbow rose
- Cut the bottom 2 inches of stem into three segments
- Stick each segment into a different vase of water colored with food dye.
- Mix the food dye colors to get additional colors orange, green or blue.
The longer the stem sits in the colored water the more intense the flower color will be.
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| Rainbow Roses |
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