For centuries, gardeners have attempted to breed blue roses with no success. But now, thanks to modern biotechnology, the elusive blue rose may finally be attainable. Researchers have found a way to ...

In his excellent debut, Eglin combines just the right amount of horticultural detail with well-drawn characters and an absorbing plot. While Kate and Alex Sheppard explore the long neglected gardens ...

For the FBI investigators of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks television series, “blue rose” cases involved the paranormal, the supernatural, and the downright weird. It’s an appropriate symbol: Blue roses do ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. There's a reason the intensely blue orchid flowers ...

The queen of flowers, the rose, has one of the most impressive wardrobes in nature. The shades of red — the color most commonly associated with roses — range from the most delicate pink to a maroon so ...

You probably never thought of the perennials as inventions, have you? D. Lawrence Tarazano, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Juliet so famously pleads to Romeo, “A rose by any other name would smell ...

The queen of flowers, the rose, has one of the most impressive wardrobes in nature. The shades of red–the color most commonly associated with roses –range from the most delicate pink to a maroon so ...

BEAUTIFUL flowers—like beautiful women—can separate the most sensible of men from their money. Those men invest in the reproductive organs of plants such as roses to signal, albeit coyly, analogous ...