Week 21 View 52
As explained in my recent thread this week I will not be able to get time to shoot so I decided to take this image and upload it a day early I hope this is ok.
Right this Lilly was actually the pure white Lilly I shot last week. Yes I know they are still alive these were well worth the £3 I spent lol. As you may notice the white now has pink and red going through it and I must admit this image was created on instructions from my daughter from a book she got from the libary.
So I will explain in simple steps how to do this.
1) Get flower cut stem on angle
2) Fill glass/vase with water
3) Place flowers in water
4) Now add a few drops of food colouring.
And that is all it takes. It does say leave for a 24 hour period but this was created after about 4-5 hours .
Why does this happen? Flowers drink through bunches of thin tubes like straws that carry the water up the roots, stems and into the leaves and flowers hence it turns the flowers to the colour of the dye.
You can also split the stem and use two glasses with different colour dye to see what happens.
This was my daughters idea and I must admit it was great fun watching the change so I am sure I will try this out on some other flowers to see what I can get
Near Miss
James
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