Famous Roses

The blue moon rose story.

Lee Wheless snaps this photo of the blue Moon, submitted on 10/18/05

Large lavender blue blooms with strong fragrance on long slender stems.

Healthy medium growth. Most popular of all the ‘Blue Roses’

This rose is named “blue moon” they call this rose blue but there is not a true blue rose in nature,

the rose growers are still trying to cross breed a rose to be a true blue, as the saying goes ” once in a blue moon”.

This has proven difficult as the gene that produces blue in hard to recreate in a laboratory.

There are real reported instance of a blue moon. these are a few of the documented cases

1. The Indonesian volcano Krakatoa exploded in 1883, its dust turned sunsets green and the Moon blue all around the world for the best part of two years.
2. In 1927, the Indian monsoons were late arriving and the extra-long dry season blew up enough dust for a blue Moon.
3. Moons in northeastern North America turned blue in 1951 when huge forest fires in western Canada threw smoke particles up into the sky.

The myth about a blue moon has been around for many years, as early as the 15th century people were reported as seeing a blue moon.

The origin of the expression “once in a blue moon ” is widely reported as coming from the second full moon of the calender month.

So Fact or Fiction prove it!!.

Riddle me this, is someone else singing on this track with Elvis, and not his backing group?

Elvis singing Blue Moon