Get a white carnation. Using a craftknife, cut the stem in half for half its length. Place the two halves in different glasses - one containing diluted blue food dye and the other containing red - for about half an hour or until it reaches the desired colour.
A white carnation crossed with a red carnation makes a pink carnation.
There are no states with the red carnation as their state flower, but there is only one state with the scarletcarnation as its state flower. That state is Ohio.
Pink carnations are the result of a red and a white carnation cross.
Scarlet caraitionThe state flower of Ohio is the scarlet carnation.
Liechtenstein's flag is blue in the top half and red in the bottom half. There is also a yellow/gold crown in the blue part.
Florists sometimes put white carnations into blue dye. The flowers absorb the dye and it turns the flowers blue.
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1. Blue 2. Red followed by: 3. Violet 4. Green 5. Carnation Pink Source: Binney & Smith, 1993
Then you would have a red carnation.