Let’s just say, desperate or even just immoral people will do almost anything to get their hands on a blue rose.
Getting your hands on a legitimate blue rose would take a struggling company to the financial stratosphere. Large companies are struggling to compete with mega large companies.
The acres and acres of roses that are grown each year to be sent to enhance the lives of gardeners all over the world is staggering to contemplate. The worldwide rose industry is worth billions, not millions per year, but billions. Their perfect world is about to explode into intrigue, murder, and deception. They know enough about this and that to be good hosts and good conversationalists. She runs a fussy antique store, and he is a handsome, edgy architect.They would be people that most of us would love to have as friends. They are yuppies or yippies or whatever young, preppy, upwardly mobile couples are called these days. The lighting is that good, erhh bad!), but they would not believe she held a sapphire rose.Īlex and Kate Sheppard have just recently bought the grand old manor called The Parsonage with its extensive walled gardens. They can make lavender roses that have blue tints, and in the right lighting, at a bar late at night, after a couple of tall martinis, one might believe he has just had a saucy conversation with a seventy year old woman, who looks twenty-five, holding a sapphire rose.Īnd people would believe you about the seventy year old woman looking twenty-five (It is always possible that Helen Mirren is hanging out in your local bar and thinks you are the sexist man there. ‘It is real!’”įor those who may not know, a blue rose does not exist in nature, and so far, it doesn’t exist in a greenhouse laboratory either. She gripped it lightly and gently tugged one of the petals. Kate edged closer and knelt until her face was inches from one of the blooms. Not lavender or mauve, but an electric sapphire blue.
They were plump and perfectly formed.Ī brilliant blue. It was covered with blooms the size of tennis balls-dozens of them. ”Standing shoulder height in front of them was a rose bush, thick with thorns and silky dark green leaves.
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