blue hydrangea and delphinium
Though a favorite color for many brides, blue can be difficult in terms of having a wide variety of flowers to choose from. Have you noticed how rare blue is in nature and how few animals and plants exist that are blue? In food, the color blue is actually an appetite suppressant because it is such a rare occurrence making it kind of gross to us – blue eggs anyone?! And then there’s the everlasting quest to find a blue rose. Though blue roses do not exist in nature, breeders have sought to create one using hybridization techniques and, more recently, transgenic methods. However the “blue roses” available at the market today are perhaps more accurately described as lavender or lilac in color. It’s no wonder the blue rose symbolizes the quest for attaining the impossible!
The Flower Lab website
Tiny Wren Press