electric blue gerbera

[Immi666]

when i was in new york there was a flower shop at the end of the block i was staying on that had a bouquet of gerberas and one of them was electric blue. it was the most beautiful flower i've ever seen. was it actually a gerbera? where can i get one? how can i grow some?

[shaneystar]

This is the gerbera
http://www.plantfacts.com/Family/Asteraceae/Gerbera.jame sonii.shtml
I have never seen a blue one..

[Grimalkin]

I'm not entirely sure, but it may have been a white gerbera which had been cut then put in water with blue dye: it drinks it up and the flower turns blue. I have also seen it done with chrysanths and in a nasty shade of green.

[shaneystar]

Do you know grimalkin I though this too ! I was going to add in my post that they could have dyed them with indian ink and thought better of it ,in case anyone thought I had lost the plot !

[woofgang]

I have got a rather chi chi bouquet of vivid purple, shocking pink and white chrysanths which i bought in Tesco's. it sounds strange but actually is quite pretty