Plants... continued!

Along with our Plants A, B, and C... we also tried a little experiment with celery and carnations. We learned that plants "drink" in water through their roots, pull it up through their stem (like a straw!) and finally, it goes out to the leaves and petals.

We put a bunch of white carnations in blue food coloring, and a couple of stalks of celery in purple food coloring. (Why celery? The long crunchy part that people eat is the stem!) After a few hours, and then a couple of days, we checked back to see what had happened.

 Can you see the blue starting to appear in the petals?

This photo was a few days after we started our experiment. The celery tops were starting to get a little gross, but you could definitely see the color!