Hello! It's Blue Monday! For complete instructions, just click here.Today is Johnny's birthday. Our children and grandchildren will gather to celebrate, so I will be busier than usual. Please be patient with me.
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We were shopping at Home Depot this past week, and look what we spotted! Blue orchids! Pots and pots of beautiful, Blue blooms, displayed right beside their plain, white brothers.
The label says, "Blue Mystique." While snap, snapping away, a store employee walked by and explained that the gorgeous color is actually a Blue dye that has been injected into the stem of the original, white-blooming plant. When these Blue blooms die off, he explained, the new blooms will be white. I looked it up on the internet; for more information, click here.
Happy Blue Monday!
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Fake blue is better than no blue at all...when it comes to orchids! :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous blue orchids! So pretty :) Happy Blue Monday, Sally... and thanks for hosting another fab blue party! Greetings from Australia♥ ~Pernilla
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers! Thanks for hosting! Diane
ReplyDeleteI think we have flowers on our minds! I have a beautiful lily plant but it is shocking pink! I like this information too! Have a wonderful week.
ReplyDeleteterrific blue post.
ReplyDeleteMy fave plants and fave color. Aren't they a perfect combination?
ReplyDeleteJust loving it.
Than you for hosting Maam Sally. I am enjoying 3rd time joining your party.
Happy week.
/CC girl
Please remove the photo "At five in the afternoon cape for scarlet and gold", not blue, I was wrong to raise. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteNow that's something you don't see everyday! Yes, they're gorgeous. And beautiful.
ReplyDeleteHazel
I had a blue orchid as a present for my birthday, but my guests did not know that the blue colour was fake. Still, I will enjoy it both as blue and as white!
ReplyDeleteHappy Blue Monday and Happy Birthday Johnny!
When I think of Key West I think Blue. It's everywhere. Thanks for the opportunity to revisit!
ReplyDeleteThough it's not original blue, but they are so gorgeous!
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Cheats! :-)
ReplyDeleteIt does look quite stunning though...
Thanks for hosting.
What beautiful flowers and gorgeous colour.
ReplyDeleteThank you for hosting BLUE MONDAY.
You have a sharp eye for blue, seeming to find the color wherever you go. Thanks for sharing your finds with us!
ReplyDeleteSally, neat discovery in the Home Depot aisle.
ReplyDeleteWow the orchids really took the blue nicely! I have seen that technique done to carnations and daisies a lot but never orchids. As a kid I remember making blue celery that way too, with food coloring... I had forgotten that "mad scientist" experiment until just now! LOL Amazing what a blue flower will provoke!
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting process to make such gorgeous orchids! I may have to make a trip to Home Depot!
ReplyDeleteImagine if orchids could really permanently be such a wonderful shade of blue? They are so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThat is a new blue for an orchid. They certainty would be an eye catcher. Seem there is not much that someone cannot do if you have the smarts.
ReplyDeleteOh, so lovely! Happy Birthday celebration to Johnny, wishing you happiness and joy around your table!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to Johnny! Hope you have a great time celebrating.
ReplyDeleteI love that shade of blue, although dying orchids seems just a little weird. But it certainly makes them stand out nicely.
~Joy @ Joysweb
Happy Birthday wishes to Johnny! The blue orchids are pretty, but blue iris would be the true blue deal. ;-)
ReplyDeleteHappy Blue Monday, Sally! ~ Sarah
Poznám tento spôsob farbenia kvetov. Doteraz som videla karafiáty, ruže, ale orchidey vidím prvý raz. Sú zaujímavé.
ReplyDeletePrajem pekný týždeň.
I know this method of dyeing flowers. So far I've seen carnations, roses, orchids but I see first. They are interesting.
Have a nice week.
That delicate and beautiful flowers with bright blue .., beautiful photos!
ReplyDeleteHi Sally, I worked in the town gardens all morning and then visited my other sister who was in France with my other sisters. This sister lives right down town on Town Mountain. She brought me some French soap that smells delicious.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen blue orchids before. I imagined that they dyed them and I was right. HA! You can do that to carnations too.
My sister is here from Atlanta and on her way home she is going to the auction I have mentioned several times. I better close because she should be pulling in any minute. Off we go again. The auction is near Franklin. Hope I fins something great...CHEAP.
Love, Jeanne
PS: Yes, we could be related. Big smile here. Thank you for the lovely comment about our grands.
Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't forget, but had a visitor at the door that stayed for some time!! Thanks for the reminder as I had forgotten by then I didn't get my link done. :))))
ReplyDeleteOh Sally they are so bluetiful! Blessings, Debbie
ReplyDeleteHappy Blue Monday& Happy Birthday to Johnny! Love those blue orchids!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful blue orchids! That is one flower my dh has not been able to grow or keep alive anyway. Happy Blue Monday!
ReplyDeleteThose are gorgeous!
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