Blue Roses, Rudyard Kipling. 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 ...

WITH LUSCIOUS BLOOMS, many of them fragrant, produced for months on end in every color of the rainbow except blue (just wait — plant breeders are working on that), what’s not to love about roses?

A blue rose, known by many as the "Holy Grail" of plant breeding, is soon to go on sale in Japan, reports the BBC's Kathryn Westcott. BBC News Updated every minute of every day One-Minute World News ...