This is the Message Centre for Lanzababy - Guide Editor

Glow in the dark roses?

Post 1

Lanzababy - Guide Editor

I've just been offered these by online florists.

http://www.tescofreshflowers.com/newsltes5/product/halloween-treats/glow-in-the-dark-roses/?cm_mmc=newsletter-_-newsltes5-_-october-_-glowroses

Look away if you have any taste whatsoever.

Mind you, I seriously thought 'I wonder if they deliver to Spain?' then they could go onto my husband's grave. I say grave but really it's a sort of walled cemetery. A niche. Dia de los muertos is coming up and I shall not be there to clean and provide fresh flowers. I think K would have appreciated the black humour of having eery roses.

*glum*


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 2

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

smiley - yikes How, er, scary.

Do you think they are just painted with phosphorescent paint, or is evil gene-splicing going on? How Frankenflower are these?

I agree, though smiley - hug: wouldn't we wish to give our loved ones a laugh? My late aunt, whose birthday was Halloween, would probably be amused.


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 3

Lanzababy - Guide Editor

I think they are like dyed flowers, you know, those ultra bright chrysanthemums that you see for sale. Probably soaked in a chemical that fluoresces.

Or perhaps they really grew like that!! smiley - yikessmiley - ghost I hadn't actually thought of that much.


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 4

Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

That's astonishing!smiley - yikes

I have seen flowers in Tescos, fake coloured, covered in glitter, and thought them tacky. If these dayglo roses were natural I'd think them beautiful. I'll keep an eye out for thesesmiley - disco


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 5

Elektragheorgheni -Please read 'The Post'

Would Tesco's deliver something to Spain or doesn't the European Union really happen in the UK? Or would delivery costs be excessive?


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 6

Websailor

In the Daily Mail today:

When the variety of flowers called Avalanche are charged with natural or electric light they give off an eerie green glow in the darkness

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2220972/Scientists-create-eerie-glow-dark-flowers-time-Halloween.html#ixzz2AFB64c00
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Not sure if you folks can get the web sites where you are.

Websailor smiley - dragon


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 7

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

AHA! They're not admitting how they do it. smiley - rofl

We suspect Dr Frankenstein has been at work. smiley - evilgrin

Thanks for that link, Webbie. smiley - hug


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 8

Websailor

Well you can't blame them really, it's spooky, and expensive. Not usually in favour of gimmicks but my curiosity is aroused, though not my card smiley - smiley

Should have asked for some for my birthday smiley - biggrin

Websailor smiley - dragon


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 9

Sol

Oh dear. I'm afraid I really really want some...


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 10

There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho

You're not alone, Sol, I want some too smiley - bigeyes


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 11

KB

They make me want to scatter them at the feet of holy statues to make people think they're in the throes of religious ecstacies.


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 12

Lanzababy - Guide Editor

We'll have to experiment. smiley - magicsmiley - wizardsmiley - scientistsmiley - elf


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 13

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

fibre optics comes to mind smiley - smiley


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 14

There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho

Oooooh, fibre optics smiley - biggrin

I used to work at a department store on Saturdays in the early 70s, on the lighting department, and we used to sell these http://api.ning.com/files/QyoiFsEKGt98jZaGsdE-9dQ5qaLwgX9A0lKvQxKiizGHbC7eA3B2G2qioxSoQhRcuv-MhBOo3KdmUm8lG64fmcRQqeAGW*Ti/galaxy4.jpg

It was either made by, or sold under the name of, the same people who made Astro (lava) Lamps, Crestworth, and it was called the Jupiter and it changed colour and it was far more classy than any of the other fibre optic lamps we sold I wanted one smiley - drool

My Saturday wages ($1.35 for eight hours, after NI), were never quite enough to afford one, although I might have been able to if I hadn't squandered my money at the boozer of a Saturday night smiley - drunk


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 15

Gnomon - time to move on

Lanza, you don't need to tidy your husband's grave. Just think of him, as I'm sure you do.

I suspect the flowers are made by standing normal flowers in phosphorescent liquid which they absorb into their petals through the stalk. The phosphorescence works in the same way as on the hands of a watch, by absorbing and re-emitting sunlight. It tends to be slightly radioactive, but in such small doses that no one minds.


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 16

Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~

There's something smiley - fishy here - literally... smiley - erm

I think Dmitri is on to something. I know evil smiley - scientists have experimented with taking genes from fluorescent smiley - fish (like you will find at the bottom of the oceans) and put them into other of Bob's creations

This could very well be the result of such experiments smiley - erm

smiley - pirate


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 17

Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~

Fancy having a kitten glowing in the dark? The smiley - mousesmiley - esuom might like it

smiley - pirate


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 18

h5ringer

Or smiley - mousesmiley - esuom glowing in the dark. smiley - cat might like smiley - biggrin


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 19

You can call me TC

Assuming that Gnomon's method is right, which is how I would have assumed they did it, why does it only work with Avalanche and not any other white roses? Or does it? There is no indication of how long they glow - Does the blossom outlive the glow? Does the glow outlive the blossom, Cheshire cat-style?

I am reminded of Sheldon's glowing night-light fish (TBBT), or the glowing rabbit in the Hound of the Baskervilles (the Mark Gatiss version)


Glow in the dark roses?

Post 20

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

http://chemistry.about.com/od/glowingprojects/a/Glowing-Flower.htm


smiley - smiley


Key: Complain about this post

More Conversations for Lanzababy - Guide Editor

Write an Entry

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers."

Write an entry
Read more