VIDEO: Make your own blue roses

How to turn white roses into blue roses

Buy white roses from a flower shop. Make sure that the roses are still fresh and that the leaves are not already showing signs of aging. The roses should also have as thick a stem as possible.

1. Cut the stems diagonally at the bottom. This increases the water absorption area.
2. Put the roses in a container with water. All you have to do now is color the water.
3. Put blue ink in the flower water. One ink cartridge is usually not enough. With too little ink, you will only get roses with blue veins. But that already looks very unusual and beautiful.
4. Put several ink cartridges in the flower water. The water must be as intense as possible blue.


Coloring orchids blue - this is how it works

Orchids, with their often colorful flowers, are a beautiful and ...

5. You can also use watercolors or other colors on the rose water Coloursthat can be dissolved in water turn blue. You can also use blue food coloring to turn white roses into blue roses.
6. Now all you have to do is wait a day or two. Then you can enjoy your blue roses or make a fancy bouquet gift.
instagram viewer
7. Spraying the roses with blue paint is not a better solution. You can see from the roses that they are not dyed "down to the wool". Also, spraying damages the leaves, which cannot breathe properly under a layer of blue paint sprayed on them.
8. By the way, you can also cut the stem of a rose into three stems and place each stem in a glass with differently colored water: blue, black and yellow, for example. Then you get a rose colored in three colors.