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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Beautiful and fragrant blue petunias get their unusual color from a molecular defect in the ...

AT FIRST GLANCE, blue is everywhere in our Pacific Northwest corner of the natural world — bluebird skies, rivers, lakes and saltwater surround us. However, in the world of flowering plants, fewer ...

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 roses and ...

I know there isn't such a botanical category as "blue shade," that is, plants that add the color blue to shady spots in our gardens, but there should be. Everyone has shade, and blue is one of the ...

Flowers are found around the world in a variety of environments, and in all kinds of sizes, shapes and colors. Flowers are collected for many different reasons. Scientists collect flowers to find ...

There they were, sitting on a sales table among the ranks of other hibiscus shrubs, both hardy and tropical. Nothing about them blared their claim to fame, certainly not the wizened, faded flowers.

Have you noticed some of the spectacular blue and white flowers this summer? Among the ones that have attracted my attention are the white Cora vinca flowers. They are a summer annual, so they will ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience.View full ...

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 roses and ...

Beautiful and fragrant blue petunias get their unusual color from a molecular defect in the system that controls the acidity of the plants' cells. A new study reveals this defect in full, solving the ...