Brittie, that's how my Violet's Prides are here too. Heavy bloomers but not so much fragrance, hoping that it will improve!

I never hear anybody mention Twice in a Blue Moon. I wonder if it's only good in my climate or if nobody grows it or?? The fragrance is absolutely intoxicating here!

Lavender Crush looks amazing kali and BenT. How is the fragrance on that one?

Lavenderlace my LC has an exceptional fragrance! This is the first year I’ve had it so it’s still a baby, it only had a few blooms but it has massive nasal cane growth (a new cane sprouted and grew over 5’ fall in only a few months!) I’m sure as it gets older and develops more blooms the fragrance will be more intense

apparent I need more lavender in my life.

Kristine, I thought that I would never hear those words from you, LOL! In fact, as I was giving away all of my Lagerfelds for looking too crispy in full sun, I remember thinking that "Kristine will certainly think that this is good riddance"!

Kali, that's super exciting news about LC. Are yours own-root? I don't see them sold anywhere so need to step up the search I think!

Lavenderlace, this is a bit embarrassing but I don’t actually know. I’m still very new to gardening. I think it is grafted though because I got it from Home Depot and it was completely unlabeled is just said “assorted rose”. Luckily some kind people on here were able to tell me it was an LC, but I’m not actually sure about own root or grafted

Wow, you certainly got lucky! Was it in a plastic body bag or a pot?

If i remember correctly it was in a pot, I did get lucky! Many of my best finds have been body bag/unlabeled roses that I’ve layered ID’d

for example I had this idea to have piñata roses running up 2 obelisks next to these twin trees in my back garden, well I only had 1 piñata rose because the one I bought with it got diseased and died. By chance I had recently bought a B.B. rose with an incorrect tag (claimed to be Blue Boy but it bloomed orange and yellow hahah), I come to realize in a few weeks that I got a piñata rose by chance!

My Lavender Crush was also mislabeled, as Angel Face. It is now an 8 ft tall climber with purple/ white-reverse bowl shaped blooms. I’m guessing Certified Roses grew far more LCs than they could sell, so they went to big box stores with the surplus. My real Angel Face remains 18 inches tall with ruffled lavender blooms.

This is why missed you lavender, you crack me up

BenT - 18"....I hate when that happens. Grow!!!!

Just a couple;

Dr John Dickman

Love Song is so beautiful but she just isnt working out in my climate. She got black spot so bad here and she is down to one spindly tiny cane. I pulled her out of the pot and stuck her in the ground and so far its been 2 months and she is just sitting there, no change lol. She is grafted on Doc Hey. I wonder if I got a dud? Does anyone else in the deep south have success with Love Song?

Poseidon is a better rose here than Love Song. Poseidon is more blue toned where Love Song more true lavender pink toned here.

My Poseidon has morphed into a true climber and has been so for 2 yrs now so I am just saying she is a climbing sport of Poseidon. She easily goes 14 ft. Ive cut her back several times and she goes right back up the trellis in the same manner. She is wrapped around the trellis several times. I love her that way. I would also like to get a regular bush of poseidon.

This photo is from awhile ago. She is even taller now.

Gorgeous blooms everybody!! I hate this new Houzz crap that doesn't show the larger pictures in the thread!

Here's a few of my purpleys..

BLUE FOR YOU

BLUE NILE

CAROLINA GIRL

DELILAH

ENCHANTED EVENING

LAVENDER JOY

LILA VIDRI

MACHO MAN

MIDNIGHT BLUE

Love Song--the following 4 pics are of Love Song. Since it is my only lavender, I figured I might as well really wallow in its beauty! Ha!

Kate

Kate - what a fabulous rose!!! I'm wallowing in its beauty too. :)

Sultry - sure looks like you got a climbing version. I didn't even know there was one. Lovely!

Wow Kate, what a fabulous color

Kate that is so beautiful! It makes me want to try and get another Love Song lol.

rosecanadian, there isnt a climbing version of Poseidon that I know of. I think this one sported. It was growing normally like a shrub and then started growing a tall wild cane. It got up to 10ft so I cut it back. It grew again with branches that were also tall. I cut it back a few times because I thought it was supposed to be a shrub. It grew back to 14ft. I gave up and just let it be a climber. So now I really think it is a climbing sport of Poseidon.

Sultry - how wonderful!!! It's quite remarkable when these sports occur. Is it still fragrant? Does it get lots of flowers?

Carol

Yes the flowers are exactly the same just it is much much taller. It is a good bloomer

Wow! Are you going to take any cuttings?

Carol

Barbara Streisand

Ebb Tide

Fragrant Plum... (lavender tones)

Eyes For You

Vineyard Song can be purply

Neptune

Blue Girl

Purple Lodge

Twilight Zone

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Angel Face

Reine Des Violettes

I cannot find a single image of Plum Perfect. Yours is absolutely beautiful. Sara-Ann!

Desertgarden - gasp!!! Your Neptune is fabulous!!! What a gorgeous color! I also love your Reine des Violettes!!!

Does your CRM have a wonderful fragrance?

Carol

Unfortunately, I never sniffed CRM, Carol. For me, it does not bloom much, so there has not been a lot of opportunities. Sometimes my Neptune looks similar to Fragrant Plum, and then at other times, it looks like this. When it bloomed again this year, I had to double check the first image to be sure my labeling was not an error.

Desertgarden - looks very magentish. Wow - if CRM can't do well where you are...forget it here. LOL

Carol

Ebb Tide looks delicious. I am glad I took the plunge on that one. And Purple lodge, wow. I am wild about that color. Very nice assortment Desert

Desertgarden--love your Barbara Streisand! The other pics are gorgeous also.

Kate

Princess Anne is kind of in the purple family:

Love your Princess Anne, Vickysgarden! P.A. is one of my favorite Austins. I was admiring her blooms this morning and trying to describe the coloring. I was coming up with orchid pink, but it is purply...

Wow, guy and gals! These are gorgeous! I think I'm missing the boat! I don't have a single lavender/purple rose. Hmmmm. I may have to rectify that. : )

I'm going to get Fragrant Plum!!

Carol

I do love the purples and lavenders, and Sara Ann, you have some beauties among your rose collection of these colors. I love the frilled petals of your English Perfume, and its shaded petal edges, too. Are the blooms pretty large? Next fav, was Plum Perfect with its rich jewel toned bloom colors, and finally, Royal Amethyst's porcelain smooth petals just beg to be touched......I've been out of commission for a week, and so I'm a little late arriving here. But I have some pics to share that I hope you'll like (and I hope there aren't too many. It was hard to narrow down the list). Diane

Twilight Zone

Love Song

Bouquet of Ascot, Love Song, Munstead Wood

Munstead Wood and The Prince

Angel Face

Ebb Tide

Here are a few more photos. Diane

Blueberry Hill

Young Lycidas

Blue Bayou--an oldie pic

Wild Blue Yonder

Sara-Ann, I think I will surely die because English Perfume is not a cold climate rose. Boo Hoo.

Diane, you have a fabulous collection of purples. They are the perfect complement to your yellows. I hope my baby purples grow up to look like yours.

Bethnorcal, love your mysterious looking Midnight Blue.

And, Desertgarden's striking Purple Lodge.

Bustopher, your Morning Lilac peony is really something. I don't have any intersectionals. It broke my heart to take out 4 mature tree peonies last year. They had all reverted back to root stock.

Diane there are not enough superlatives in the world for your purples!!! Amazing!!!

Carol

You all have so many beautiful purples and lavenders. Thanks for sharing!

Twilight Zone

I have always been so impressed with your Ascot, Diane. Mine looks like this:

Diane, you have the purples that grab my attention. Love those dark saturated colors of purple.

I just planted TwilightZone and have Young lycidas and Ebb Tide coming

It was your combination of yellow and purple that inspired my front yard design . I am also adding lots of orange.

Thanks for the inspiration

Thanks again everyone for sharing all your beautiful roses! Nanadoll, thank you, I didn't see your question about English Perfume. At its very best, which was late in the season, the blooms were packed with petals, and their size was about average HT size. They were truly a sight, I took a gob of pictures to try and capture the beauty, couldn't quite do it, but came close.

Thank you, Sara Ann. Do you have any of those "gob of photos" of English Perfume you can share with us? I think we'd love to see them. It's a rose I haven't seen pictured much on the forum.

Lynn, is your Ascot own root? I doubt it--I'll bet it's on multiflora rootstock like mine if you got it from Palatine. Maybe extra water would help. Manure? Rose Tone? Maybe shadecloth would cause your Ascot to fade to red less, though I haven't noticed much color change in mine. But LV is tremendously sunny. I hope it grows more and blooms wine for you. Diane

I received my Ascot from Palatine, Diane and it is on Multiflora Rootstock. You are probably correct regarding the sun's impact upon the coloring.

Lynn, just doing some more thinking here (ha). Have you tried soil acidifier on Ascot? I like the Hi-Yield brand which contains sulfur, iron, and other stuff. I only use acidifier on roses like the hybrid musk Ballerina, which hates alkaline soil and becomes very chlorotic. It could be that the multiflora, which supposedly doesn't like alkaline soil, either, is causing the problems. The soil here is probably not as alkaline as your soil. You could also use fertilizer for acid loving plants, which I do for all my roses. I think this alone helps a lot. I don't think your Ascot looks bad at all--lots of new canes on the plant in fact. Diane

Here’s some examples of ENGLISH PERFUME, nanadoll.

These are indeed beautiful photos, Sara Ann, and thank you for posting them. I looked at the photos of EP on HMF, and a lot of growers had just plain, pale colored pink roses without the lovely shading you have achieved. Do you have any secrets for getting these results? Is your soil alkaline? The other thing I noticed is that quite a few HMF posters showed roses without the adorable ruffles. I think they are a lot of EP's charm, and set it apart from other "plain" roses. I love yours and you got a winner. Diane

Wow Sarah, your English Perfume is in a class of its own. I love the romantic coloring and the ruffled petals.

Diane -

Soil acidifier and other organics are standard operating procedure here in terms of readying holes for rose plantings. I did not care for the Hi-Yield product that has sulfur and iron because the iron added was never sufficient for my soil's needs.

I purchased Dark Desire from Palatine too, but it was planted on the opposite side of the garden, near a tree, where it receives filtered sun. The color for D.D. was as anticipated. This supports your suggestion regarding the sun and Ascot's color ....

The English Perfume is a gorgeous rose, Sara-Ann. It is delicate and kind of a standout at the same time...

Sara Ann those EP are gorgeous! I haven’t seen roses with those ruffled edges before. Well now i have an excuse to add another rose to my wish list lol

My Ascot from Palatine is also more red than wine colored. I'll try some acid fertilizer this season. Thanks Diane & Lynn. I don't just think it is fading in the sun.

Purple roses are my favorite! Thanks for the amazing pics!