Wednesday, October 21, 2009

青いバラ(aoi bara): Blue Rose

What flower do you like the best? I like roses, pink roses or red roses.
In today's newspaper, there were two articles regarding roses. One is a local news about the park full in bloom of roses. The other is the outstanding news.
Do you know the Japanese beverage company Suntory? They created the Blue Rose for the first time in the world in 2004 after 13 years of joint research by an Australian company Florigene. I saw the flower in the Gifu Flower Festival Commemorative Park in 2005 for the first time. The color was rather lilac.
They decided to sell the Blue Roses finally from November 3. The name is Suntory blue rose APPLAUSE. Its language of flower is yume kanau(夢叶う), dreams come true.
To make blue roses was thought to be impossible for a long time, therefore blue roses signify a mystery or attaining the impossible. Now they became to exist.
It costs about yen2,000 to yen3,000 for a rose.
They say today is day of light because Thomas Edison created the incandescent lamp with the Japanese bamboo filament today in 1879.
Many things which seemed to be impossible have been realized by now. What kind of dreams would you like to realize?

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