Blue roses are nearly always in fashion, although there is no true blue rose. Blue roses tend to be lavender or magenta (magenta is also the color of many red roses as they age). Which leads us to the modern antique rose Outta the Blue (aka Out of the Blue). If modern antique seems an oxymoron, we have David Austin to thank and this is a sincere comment on my part.

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Hybrid Tea rose Blue Girl is a fairly crap rose. If it were not for the lavender color of the flowers, Blue Girl would surely have been dropped from the commercial rose market years ago. Blue Girl is one of those roses that does poorly in many situations, yet, from those gardeners who are fortunate enough to succeed with her, she earns rave reviews. Unfortunately, I have never been one of the lucky ones.

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The search for a truly blue rose continues (in 1840, a 500,000 Franc prize was offered to the first person to create a blue rose). I’ve heard many tales (some which may actually be true) about efforts to create a blue rose. Scientists have attempted to change the DNA of roses in order to create, for lack of a better term, blueness. No true blue rose exists, but many lavender roses have been introduced (see Sterling Silver and Blue Girl).

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