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Blue Roses
Roses red and roses white
Plucked I for my love's delight.
She would none of all my posies -
Bade me gather her blue roses.

Half the world I wandered through,
Seeking where such flowers grew;
Half the world unto my quest
Answered me with laugh and jest.

Home I came at winter tide,
But my silly love had died,
Seeking with her latest breath
Roses from the arms of Death.

It may be beyond the grave
She shall find what she would have.
Mine was but an idle quest -
Roses white and red are best.
~Rudyard Kipling

Unlike Kipling, you can now buy blue roses for your love, though at a price that's 10-20 times that of normal red roses.

According to a BBC report, genetically-modified blue roses will soon be available in Japan's flower shops.