I certainly The blue-ing towards purple of the dark red Austins as a great quality. Strange but it is considered a bad trait in Hybrid teas. This blue-ing or even deepening of the dark red to almost regal purple is really beautiful in OGRs and Austins. It makes them blend in so well together with OGR where a bright red would be to LOUD. francie12 is right LDB does meet the coolor wish of the original poster mauirose. It is a red rose that darkens to sometimes even a dark blackish red. They have a good scent in quality, but very few who have have noses for roses will state that this rose is "so dangerously well scented that grown men drown". And I have never seen a well grown LDB, it is stingy with blooms. In the public park in the city they planted big beds of Austins (LDB, Fallstaff, and WS 2000) it does not take a rose expert to see which rose produces most flowers ... WS 200 wins. All the LDBs I have seen seen produces 5-10 roses in each "flush" LOL.....That is if they do not turn into one cane wonders over the years. It is one of the few roses you plant as with 3 canes when it comes as bare root plant and the number of canes will actually decrease as the years go by... So I would love to see a picture of a well grown specimen of LDB. It will be a first! I saw Darcey Bussel on the rose fields. I do not like the scent of it and then it will never be planted in my garden. But it does produces a dark red/purple mass of flowers for those who like such a rose. It really is early to early to write a review of Munstead Wood since I have only had container grown plant since may. But it does look promising. It has shot new basals and are 2 feet tall which is a great improvement over Tradescant who in my climate rarely gets more than a feet tall. And it begins shooting new laterals before the flowers at the end of the canes have are done blooming. It is sort of a mix between Tradescant and WS 2000. The flowers are refined and have a wonderful scent similar to WS 2000. But they are not very large. So I can´t say something bad about Munstead Wood Ceterum ... not yet. IMO WS 2000 is still the best Red/purple Austin ever. Carol your RR is really well grown ...I am so envious! Well done. Mauirose. I would go for WS 2000 if it has to an be Austin, especially If you also want to grow it no spray. Watered and fed well in your climate most roses will become what we refer to as low climbers anyway. I have even as I wrote seen Tradescant grown as low climber in California. But the flowers are much darker than WS 2000.

No, Canada doesn't allow reptiles or amphibians across the border, but there are a couple RETF breeders here. I also know a girl who manages a pet store here that could get me anything I need from the States. But from what I've read, red eye's prefer a vertically oriented habitat for climbing, where-as I've designed mine for the terrestrial PDFs. Red-eyes are also nocturnal, and I would prefer something that I can see during the day. Eventually I do want to build a huge 4x5x2 foot paludarium though, and then I will get a few red-eyes, because I just love them! You could rig up a misting system to simulate rain. Check out www.poison-frogs.com. The guy there also simulates a rainy season to get his darts to breed. It sounds quite simple, actually. And from my experience with misting systems, I will say: get a pump that is twice as strong as the guys at the hydroponics store tell you, and don't get cheap misting heads! I switched from 10 cent misting heads to ones that were $2 a piece, and the more expensive ones are WAY better. And the thing that really gets me is that the better ones were at Home Depot, not the hydro store. Go figure. . .

Yeah it's true.They CAN'T see red light so he's probably fine.

Being in Texas, I would imagine MOST roses in your desired color would thrive in less than 8 hours of sun. That level of direct sun would be very appropriate in New York, Oregon, Washington, etc. Where UV and heat are intense, significantly less than 8 hours of direct sun are preferable for the vast majority of roses. When "full sun" was written and became part of the repeated "rose knowledge", the major authors were British, writing about conditions in British gardens. Vastly different from what a huge section of this country endures.