This provides me with all the horticultural "bling" I need.

I don't know if they'd be providing a "bling-bling" type feeling more so than a weird type of cheap-sceance type feeling.

-Audric

That mifgt be great along highways .. no need for street lamps !!!!

Good Day ...

Heh. Eric, for a buck forty-nine a packet, Lunaria is about the cheapest source of bling.

I get the sense that glow-in-the-dark flowers will not be anything more than a fad, if that. Chocolate roses, now that's another story.

Hope I don't offend anybody - but I saw the most gosh-awful poinsettias in the grocery store yesterday morning - blue and white, some covered with silver glitter.

Cady,
The newspaper a few days ago carried an article on this subject. Paper went into the compost before I could cut out the article. But, the jist of it is that jellyfish genes have been introduced into potatoes in such a manner that the potato plants glow in the dark when they have received too much water. Potatoes are happier grown on the dry side. Thus a grower will be able to adjust his watering schedule by checking his plants nightly.

I did see something about a jellyfish gene transplant into plants and even small animals (mice!) to make them glow when under ultraviolet lights.

The flowers in the article I posted were just sprayed with phosphorescent substance but it would be a lot creepier to have the fluorescence be genetic and internal.

I had to buy one of those poinsettias they were so funny. Word is you water them with blue food coloring to keep them blue! I was figuring they were going for the Jewish market, since they had silver wraps. A Hanaukkah poinsettia :)

I saw a poinsettia with four colors of blooms- yellow, blue, pink and purple! I had to laugh. The salesperson said it was spray paint.

Yellow, pink and purple Poinsettias are freely available over here , (not sprayed or dyed ). I have not seen any blue ones though , dont think they exist.

I read a fictional novel once where botanists were in the Amazon to try and find an orchid that had phosphoresent capability and used it like speech...I thought that was a great premise especially since orchids are one of the most complex / advanced of flowering plants . Hey, we don't know, there *could* be such a plant in the rainforest somewhere right?

I'm not a big fan of messing with poinsettias the ways I've seen, so I'm with you all on that...it's just looks (and feels) "off" to me. However, I've been standing next to those types of plants when I have heard other buyers make remarks about how great those plants looked!
To each their own eh?