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Please recommend lavender/light purple coloured hardy roses

14 years ago

Looking for a light purple Hybrid Tea type Hardy rose. I am in zone 5 and the winters can be brutal. Not sure if there is any rose like this?

Thanks

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shellys4811

14 years ago

I love melody parfumme! I've had her for 4 years now. She is own root. Very hardy here in 6b. Made it through the Easter freeze great! And the fragrance meets me yards away! Supposed to be mildew and rust resistant and I've not had those problems. Blackspot isn't hard to manage either!

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scardan123
14 years ago
Well, beside the huge roseraie de l'hay, which is probably my favourite rose, the small rugosa purple pavement.
Both are very healthy, 100% hardy, generous bloomer, and produce hips.

Here is a link that might be useful:
athenainwi
14 years ago
Sandra Renaissance is probably the hardiest lavender that I grow. Fragrant Plum does well too. I also have Blue River and Melody Parfumme but they were new last year and I'm not sure yet if they survived. Neptune died of canker and wasn't very hardy. Paradise is another one that barely survives for me but it could be the cheap body bag specimen that I have. Ebb Tide and the Prince are both darker purples and both are hardy.
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One that has been surprisingly prolific and healthy for me has been Pillow Talk, that I got when Cliff from Eurodesert sold his garden plants last year. Pillow Talk has happily survived my zone 5 winters and put out frequent reblooms of some nicely double mauve roses on a low growing plant. I consider this rose exactly what I think of when people say "mauve" - sort of a dusty pinkish purple that was popular in carpets in my grandparents' youth (certainly my grandmother had that color all over her house). The pictures on HMF are mostly from Beth, and mine has stayed the dusky purple with cream highlights rather than the hot pink in one photo. Only available from Vintage on HMF but we still have hopes for some form of survival from Vintage in years to come. Cynthia
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Beth, Please see the difference between your Blue Boy picture on help me find and the other pictures of blue boy on Help me find: Your Blue boy (many petals): Other Blue Boy (less petals and different flower): They are two different roses though the names are the same. I know because I bought a Blue boy bush this year and on its label it was written that it is developed by Interplant, year 2000. on the label it was also written repeat blooming. I bought it because i liked the flowers on the photo of the label and because it repeated. When I went home and researched the rose, I was shocked that on Help me Find it was written that Blue Boy does not repeat. I called the shop and they explained to me that my rose is a different rose that repeats. Anyway, I will understand what I got when I see how it blooms this year.
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Hi Carol, I'm following you around the forum, I guess. We're the two night owls--but I had a huge nap late in the evening, so now, of course, I'm wide awake. It was a nice day today--92F, actually, and tomorrow will be cooler yet. Then we have a high of 70F. Can you believe that? We're going into the season of up and down weather. But it's still horribly dry with no rain since May. I feel so badly for California and their awful fires. Over 4000 lightening strikes started the whole mess, and since Aug 15, 1.25million acres have burned, plus five deaths and 3500 structures destroyed. As you can guess, I read all this earlier in the day. We have lucked out with just a few smaller fires this season. I agree with your daughter about fall and allergies--they do get better. I suffer from them, too. Anyway, we had a nice BBQ, and my granddaughter Clare was over. She's feeling better, but the covid mess has been very hard on her. She actually had it, and has been over the stuff for several weeks now. What a relief. Have a nice day tomorrow. I don't suppose Canada has a Labor Day holiday tomorrow. Every day is pretty much the same around here. Diane
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palustris
14 years ago
'Lavender Lassie' makes a very large shrub in zone 6 and would probably make a 6' tall shrub zone 5. The flowers are not the classic HT style but the many petaled OGR type. Still, it is a reliable and hardy re-blooming modern shrub rose that had no disease or pest problems.
twohuskies
14 years ago
2 Buck roses come to mind: Blue Skies and Silver Shadows.
the_bustopher z6 MO
14 years ago
Lady X is usually pretty sturdy for a hybrid tea although I lost mine to that horrid Easter freeze two years ago. Another one that did survive was Silverado. If you will allow grandifloras, Lagerfeld might make it. My Paradise made it. Most of my other lavenders are floribundas. I lost several of my lavender/purple hybrid teas to that bad freeze situation. That color group can be iffy.
karenforroses
14 years ago
Although only a once-bloomer, Veilchenblau (hybrid multiflora) is a lovely semi-double mauve that is beautiful planted on a hillside or over a fence where it can cascade. It is highly rated by the ARS (8.4) and is hardy in zone 5. We grow it in our public library's children garden and it is a really nice choice.
predfern
14 years ago
Distant Drums and Prairie Breeze are two more mauve Bucks. Florence Delattre is a mauve Generosa.
jim_w_ny
14 years ago
Jenny Duval is a another one in this color group. Changes color too. Famously known for suckering. You need to kill it with a stick, something I've been trying to do for some time.

If you happen to have a spot with a concrete border that would look good chock-a-block with the same rose, try it. Or grow it in a pot. A suggestion by a poster. I should have thought of that.

Very fragrant!
RG100
Original Author
14 years ago
Thank you all for taking your time to respond. There are definitely many good suggestions here and it will be difficult for me to decide as so many sound good.

Have a great summer!

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