Japan's Blue Rose 'Applause' Bows in US | NYC Low Line

Japan’s Blue Rose ‘Applause’ Bows in US | NYC Low Line AOC Style

Because they have eluded the best of rose growers for centuries, blue roses have a near mythic quality that’s associated with unrequited love or a quest for the impossible. As is so often the case in life, the solution to breeding a spectacular blue rose was an unassuming, delphinidin-producing gene from a simple pansy. 

The pansy’s genetic pedigree became a true Cinderella story, when she hooked up with an Old Garden ‘Cadinal de Richelieu’ rose. After its Japan debut, ‘Applause’ sold for ten times the price of an ordinary rose.

Perk up other rose-colored girls; most of us won’t be able to afford the blue rose anyway.