These 7 blue flowers deliver the sky, cornflower and cobalt shades that can be surprisingly hard to find in the garden.

Add color to your late-season garden with different types of fall aster flowers. There's many gorgeous aster varieties to ...

Scientists engineered roses that made both a blue pigment and a colorless helper molecule that brought out its shade.

The blue rose has always been something of a botanical cheat since the world’s first genetically engineered blue rose was ...

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 ...

Roses are red, but science could someday turn them blue. That’s one of the possible future applications of a technique researchers have used to genetically engineer blue chrysanthemums for the first ...

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 ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The colour blue is associated with calm, cool, peaceful spaces, but show me a blue flower and I’m ...

At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favourite colour frequently results in an answer of "blue". Why is it that humans are so fond of blue? And why does it seem to be so rare in ...

At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favorite color frequently results in an answer of "blue". Why is it that humans are so fond of blue? And why does it seem to be so rare in the ...

Blue is the rarest flower color, seen on only 10 percent of the 280,000 flowering plants on Earth. Among those who specialize in color analysis, it is sometimes claimed that, in reality, there has ...