Blue Enchantress has striking ruby-black stems supporting big, mop head flowers on this exquisite reblooming hydrangea. It's a superb border shrub for color throughout summer, with flowers that ...

Blue isn’t a natural color in these types of orchids. These are white flowers that get their color from a dye used by plant breeders. In fact, “blue is a color that is infrequent in nature ...

A reader seeks advice on why their hydrangeas are fading in color. Plus, Grumpy’s gripe of the week. "My French hydrangea ...

Blue is the rarest flower color, seen on only 10 percent of the 280,000 flowering plants on Earth. Among those who specialize in color analysis, it is sometimes claimed that, ...

Some flowers create blue halo to say hello to… Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) ...

He arranges flowers over the scanner, sometimes suspending them with wires, even burning them during the scan. Creamer’s work has been featured at the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History ...

Roses are red, violets are blue. Except they’re not. They’re, er, violet. True blue flowers are exceedingly rare, and not for lack of effort. Plant breeders have repeatedly tried to nudge ...

So why is blue such a rare color among plants (at least, ... There are more blue flowers out there than you might think; it’s just that our human eyes can’t make them out.

Some flowers have found a nifty way to get the blues. They create a blue halo, apparently to attract the bees they need for pollination, scientists reported Wednesday. Bees are drawn to the color ...