FLOWER IN FOCUS
quirky and fun
Clockwise from top: The unusual Green Eye rose; Blue rose; Florimex waxed rose; Rainbow-petalled Happy Roses
sellers but spare a thought for the more unusual rose. Because there are some fun, fabulous and quirky alternatives out there! Probably the best example of
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a mad-hatter character is the rainbow/harlequin/happy rose - whatever name you wish to call it you can see it’s clearly the most colourful variety available with its multi-coloured petals which are created by a special dyeing process that means every single rose is diff erent. OK so they are manipulated
but they’re not called Happy Roses without good reason. Because when we did a random test at a local school, whilst the oldies weren’t that smit, the youngsters (teenagers up) thought they were ‘cool’ and ‘wicked’ and a line they would buy. Standing in the playground might not be the most scientifi c test but proves you can’t always discount something just because you don’t like it. Another
manipulated option is the blue rose. Roses famously come in such a wide variety of colours that the lack of a belle blue seems
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reedom, Avalanche and Cool Water may be your tried and tested best
almost surprising but make the artifi cially coloured versions a good seller. Again our Facebook survey
had fl orists poo poo-ing them violently but we spoke to Rachel from Fiona Penny at Sunfl owers in Weymouth who told us they do extremely well selling blue and rainbow roses, especially at Valentine’s and Mother’s Day and have even recently completed a huge wedding order consisting solely of rainbow roses! Meanwhile Helen McLaughlin who owns Blossom and Balloons in Toton said, “I’m not the greatest fan to be honest but it also depends on how they are used. I did a quite nice based heart with blue roses in the spray. The daughter loved it and really that’s all that matters.” (You can see her design on thefl orist.
co.uk.) The Green Eye rose actually
doesn’t look like a rose at all… although we promise you it is. Sort of like a soft cabbage meets old rosehip fl ower, this greeny white rose is very diff erent from any other you’ll fi nd… except perhaps its red counterpart we found when we were last in Colombia called Exciting! An eerie option is
the white Avalanche rose which gives an
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