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Bart, I've seen your post but I know nothing about Royal Lavender. I suspect many people on the forum have seen your post but don't know anything either. People will respond if they have something to share with you.

I agree that photo doesn't look very lavender at all, and I am of the impression that vendor photos of this colour range are often doctored to emphasise the blue element, however slight it may be. I bought Blue Moon a couple of months ago, and it looks very lush in the greenhouse, though its first flower has yet to open for me. The photo on the card shows a rose which isn't merely lilac, but a lilac colour VERY close to blue. I have seen enough photos of Blue Moon to not expect this. My point being that while I am not familiar with Royal Lavender, I wouldn't be surprised if it proved simply to be a soft pink rose with perhaps a slightly cool tint.

Thank you both! I guess I'm hoping that Kim will eventually see my post . A lot of the photos of this rose on HMF are labeled as his, so I'm assuming he had some experience with it. I totally agree that vendor photos can be very unreliable-often not done on purpose,even! and written info can be mistaken, too. I (stupidly) got two plants of a climber called Mariella Calderoni Clbg https://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.66013  ,based on the verbal description of it's colour as "lilac", even though the photos show a decidedly warm pink. Well, in this case, the photos were correct! the flowers are salmon pink, a warm tone, nothing lilac about them at all. And the nursey's labels on the plants themselves described the rose as "coral pink". So now I'm trying to be less confident ...I sure miss Vintage Gardens website. They seemed to have almost every rose in the world,lol, and their descriptions were so detailed.

OK, I just looked up Friends of Vintage Gardens and looked at the PDF and, yes, they have it. O, how I DO hope that they will eventually put the old site back up,with all it's precious information. That was one unique rose nursery,and I of course could never even buy any of their roses!

still hoping that roseseek will comment...

OMG I used to have that rose yrs ago. You can see a couple of my old photos on HMF too. It was a beautiful rose. I got it from Vintage Gardens. I was sooo ticked when it died. They never had it available again. Not sure why it died.

Thank you, Kim . That is VERY,very helpful !!!

I'm glad, you're welcome! I thought it rather interesting that 20+ years after this American bred rose was introduced, it was only available from LeGrice in England. I guess that should have told me something? I'm glad I grew it. I'm disappointed I had to go through importing it back here.