Annie- That's a beautiful rose! I think you should get it for sure :)

I wish I could...but I have spent my limit this month.

Hope they still have one left when I have the dough.
Can't really afford all this flower buying.

With that dark purple color, you might think it wouldn't show up very much, but I am telling you, it stood out like a star in the night. I was wowed!
Hmmmm. Maybe I should have entitled this topic:
"Purple lovers. DO I have the rose for you!" :)

I know there are quite a few purple lovers on this forum.
Maybe others will look tomorrow.

Thanks for taking a look and for your reply.

~Annie

Annie, that is really a wow rose!
Do you have veilchenblau rose? It's a purple once bloomer. Mine is on it's own roots but it suckers a lot. I can probably divide some in the fall if you'd like it!

That's a beauty! I love purple flowers! Love them. Big Purple (which isn't nearly that purple) has done really well for me, and Enchanted Evening hasn't but I've moved it and am petting it.

Love it
kay

Beautiful, I love it. I bought a rose yesterday that I had been looking for for a couple years. You wouldn't think it would be hard to find Climbing America, but it was. I don't like to buy roses on line, too many disappointments in the past, so I was just shopping all the garden centers around DFW. I finally found it, guess where? Walmart! On sale for $6. #1 grade rose, big and healthy, I couldn't believe it. I hadn't bought a new rose in a couple years and it sure feels good to find the one I was yearning for.

Annie I sure hope you get that purple rose. It's so exciting to see a new color on the market these days. And true purple in a rose is very rare. I had an Angel Face, which was a soft lavender and a beautiful rose, but it just didn't thrive in mid-west Texas. I have a Blue Girl now that not only thrives here, but blooms reliably every year with pretty true-blue flowers.

If I could find a Climbing Night Owl I might be tempted to replace my Souvenir de la Malmaisson. She's a beautifully quartered soft pink, but even a heavy dew causes the buds to ball up and that's very frustrating. The CNO would look great opposite a Zepherine Drouhin over an arbor, don't you think?

Cheryl

Here is a more accurate, unpainted, image of Night Owl's purple color. It is a deep wine-purple. I love it. In the sunshine, however, the clear true purple you can see near the center of the bloom is illuminated throughout the petals, so it looks more purple than wine. It would depend upon the lighting and surrounding plants or background how our optics pick up the purple in the blooms. That fascinates me as well.

Sorry I didn't find this one first and that I may have mislead you guys with the other stock photo. That is exactly why I HATE shopping on-line. Grrrr.

And I got the leaf color wrong, too. Darn old woman anyhow. as you can see in this image, the leaves are a gray-green color so it really sets off the purple flowers.

The stamens are a bright sunny yellow, that age to gold.
I looked at several of the blooms and examined how they aged. The purple color holds true to the end of the blooms life cycle. I like that too.

{{gwi:681660}} (Image From Regan's Nursery.Com)

There must have been a hundred roses sitting there on those wooden pallets and Night Owl stood out in the midst of all those reds, pinks, oranges and yellows. It was unreal. Of course those other colors did their magic too.

Below is the LINK to their website with all the information on this climbing rose.

Thanks for looking.
~Annie

Here is a link that might be useful: Regan's Nursery - the best info on this rose

Annie- I saw zone 5 and figured it wouldn't grow well here, but I did find it on its "own root" at Northland Rosarium. I'll ask Carol if she thinks it's hardy enough for my area...what a great rose! You can never have too much purple :)

That's a nice rose.. I saw it at a rose show and it did stand out even from across the room among all the other roses. I love purple roses, too, also dark red ones... I have The Prince, Trandescant, Ebb Tide, and Rose a Fleurs des Pourp(whatever, means rose with the purple flowers in french, love the rose, can't pronounce the name). They say that darker color roses don't attract as many thrips. Sounds like a good excuse to go get one, right?

I bought a Night Owl a couple weeks ago. The purple color was true, I saw the plant in a few stores before I bought mine, and in all cases the flowers were deep purple. I planted mine last week, within 2 days the flowers changed to a more bright magenta. I am new with roses, do I need to add something to my soil? I am in Denver, Co.

Most rose blooms FADE as they age.

Don't worry about it!

~Annie

I drove down to the Farm Center today to buy this rose, but they had already closed (darned Daylight Savings time messes with my sense of time). Anyway, I got out and looked through all the roses. They got more in stock. There are three Night Owls left. And then I spotted another rose two pallets over. WOw! It was the most beautiful red I had ever seen! The rose is a large shrub rose called "Hot Cocoa". Oh boy! I am going back tomorrow. If the roses aren't too much, I hope to get two of them and one of the purple Night Owl. If they are too much, I will have to decide. Can a person be FICKLE with a rose??? :)

{{gwi:681661}} ~Annie

I have a Hot Cocoa but I would trade it for a Night Owl if that helps you decide! Looking for Night Owl now. I might of hesitated on this rose but since they had me at highly scented.

I just got home from a 3400 mi road trip. On the way back I was able to stop at Rogue Valley Roses (weren't open, but they let me walk around and look.....oh). I then stopped at Heirloom Roses for three hours. I closed the place down. My poor husband took a nap in the car. Anyway, I came home with a Night Owl, Darlow's Enigma, Rapsody in Blue and a free unknown. I am so lucky I live very far away from that place. Roses were 20% off, buy 3 get one mystery rose free. That place is amazing!!! Lots of gardens to meander in.

And Heirlooms Roses do really well. Mine started as tiny bands, and they have all done really well. You di really well, Lucky indeed.
kay
kay

I got one of these at Al's garden center late in fall, on sale for ten bucks. I didn't notice it was a "climber" and I planted it in my front yard with other shrubs that are a few feet tall. But I figure it will be a good experiment to see if I can prune it so it fits in. I am hoping its shape will be a bit different than the rest of the shrubs, but not so different that it doesn't work there.

I got Night Owl last year, so I can't really judge but the blooms on mine tended more towards the pink/magenta rather than a beautiful purple. I ordered it online because I LOVED the colour in photos. I was disappointed in the summer, and thought maybe I had been tricked with online photography!

I'm glad to hear that it really is supposed to be a purple. It gives me hope that this summer might be better!

I think the wine color comes with cooler weather. I'm saying, "I think", because my Night Owl hasn't bloomed much yet. I think it is too busy growing. I purchased it as an own-root band a year ago last October and it is over 6 feet tall now. I hope it will bloom more this season or maybe next. I'm not giving up on it yet. Here's a picture of it last July. It is reaching over the the wall now.

I have noticed that the ones I have with the purple color do indeed have it when it is cool, but lose it when it get pretty warm to hot.