Why are the queen's gardeners painting the roses red in Alice in Wonderland?

Answer 1

In Lewis Carroll's book, Through the Looking Glass, Alice finds, "a large flower-bed, with a border of daisies, and a willow tree growing in the middle."

She speaks with a tiger-lily, a rose, some daisies, a violet, and a larkspur. (Follow the Related Link below to see Tenniel's illustration of 'The Garden of Live Flowers')

In the 1951 Disney version, she encounters a rose, an iris, daisies, pansies, tulips, blue bonnets, violets, a calla lily, a lily of the valley, a lilac, a chrysanthemum, morning glories, daffodils, a tiger lily, a dandy lion (dandelion), a white rose, a yellow daisy, a rosebud, and sweetpeas.

Answer 2

The gardeners are painting the white roses red.

The Queen of Hearts only liked red roses, but they had accidentally planted white roses.

Follow the Related Link below to see Tenniel's illustration

Answer 3

The gardeners are painting the roses red because the Queen of Hearts only likes red roses and the gardeners have planted white roses by mistake. They are afraid that if they don't hide their mistake, the Queen will have them executed.

`Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a RED rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know.