Black roses Halfeti

Roses are the favorite flowers of gardeners, selectors, and simple lovers of beauty around the world. In the wild grew to the huge number of species of roses, but many of breeding, interbreeding, experiments with growing conditions increase species diversity Royal flower at times. As a result, today you can see roses of different sizes, shapes and shades, from scarlet to the usual ominously black roses.

Black roses is incredibly rare and very expensive. They grow only in one place in the world - in a small Turkish village of Halfeti, standing on the banks of the Euphrates.

The color of roses Halfeti so natural that believe in their natural origin can not everyone. Color may vary from relatively light ash-gray to downright sinister coal-black. Regardless of the shade of black roses look like they deliberately painted with Matt black paint

The interesting thing is that roses of Halfeti are not some separate species, derived as a result of numerous experiments, it is quite common dark red, almost Burgundy roses, the secret of which lies only in the special conditions of cultivation. Local soil, wash groundwater with extremely high pH. But the acidity level is not constant: it begins to grow in the spring, up to mid-summer and then begins to subside. Therefore, roses that bloom in the spring have the usual red color. And the only flowers blooming in the summer have time to get enough acidic soil and will be painted black.

This is also the Halfeti rose, but she blossomed in the summer