Dark purple rose with modern form
Can anyone recommend a rose that has the same dark purple color as Twilight Zone, but has a more modern bloom form "exhibition" type. Something like this picture, but darker purple?
Zone doesnt matter since I will have it in a big pot.
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fragrancenutter
8 years agoYou can try Big Purple
This flower is darker in real life - hard to capture on a camera
pat_bamaz7
8 years agoDo you just prefer the modern look or do you want to be able to enter blooms in a rose show? Intrigue is a wonderfully fragrant floribunda, blooms mostly in clusters with cut flowers generally not lasting as long as HTs...probably wouldn't suit your needs if you intend to exhibit, but it's my darkest purple "modern looking" rose...still not as dark as Ebb Tide or Twilight Zone, though. Intrigue will blackspot here in our humidity without spraying.
I haven't grown Melody Parfumee, but believe it to be a rather dark purple with high centered blooms that might be a rose show contender if that's what you're after.
Intrigue:
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8 years agoMy Big Purple roses were mostly Big Magenta, unless it was cooler. They didn't want to bloom much, either, so I removed them this spring. I wish my experience with them had been more like fragrancenutter's. Diane
Big Purple
Twilight Zone
DianeUser
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoMy Big Purple also isn't purple but with the hot weather we've had lately a lot of the roses look different.
Big Purple - today - don't have another pic on this Laptop but it is quite a bit darker in cooler weather but never purple
Just to show the effect of the heat - here's Eddy Mitchell today
and on 2 June this year
Sharlene
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