I didn’t see your Azure Sea hugogurll, it’s gorgeous and perfect!

Dilly, I was the same way about the Lavenders, but now they're almost my favourite! My collection is still in its infancy, but growing. My RdV cutting bloomed, but didn't really look violet at all. Maybe this comes with age or being planted in the ground. I hope she does OK in this zone. Everyone's pics here are amazeballs!! Anyone have any pics of Veilchenblau, Purple Skyliner or Stormy Weather to share?

Spirit of Freedom

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

My new favorite color category

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Plum perfect

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Young Lycidis

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Heirloom

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Munsted wood

Quicksilver

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Lavender Veranda

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Purple Prince

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Twilight Zone feeling pink

Blue Girl

Poseidon

A very Lilac Pink Evelyn bloom

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Poseidon with a matching globba ginger.

Angel Face

These are all fabulous. White roses are my favorite because they were my first love but the purples are my second. I think the apricots are just as beautiful but when I get a truly perfect, fragrant purple bloom I feel I accomplished something. When I get a perfect, fragrant apricot I feel like the rose did it.

Blue Girl

Quicksilver

Enchanted Evening

My 'like' is as much for your observation as for the pics! It's so true, but I could never have worded it so well!!! : D

Violet’s Pride

EbbTide

TwilightZone

Distant Drums..lots of lavender tones

Quicksilver

Lavender Crush

Ben how well does your Blue Girl grow. Is it pretty healthy..... I had one years ago but it grew backwards...... Though I imagine it was on Dr. Huey because I got it from a Box store and didn't know about different root stocks. It was pretty much nothing more than a green stick here .... leafless and seldom bloomed until it finally bit the dust. I have thought about getting another on fort. but haven't seen it.

Sultry Jasmin Nights, I love your Spirit of Freedom. I have one, and thought it was to be pink, but it changes color. I really like lavender roses so I am happy when she changes color..... though I like the pink version too.... It is so fragrant..... LOVE LOVE LOVE her. So glad you shared your beautiful pictures.

I think I have a crush one that Lavender Crush!

Angel Face

Sharon I have a BlueGirl in a no spray garden and she’s been pretty healthy. Decent vigor and an intoxicating fragrance. I highly recommend her in the purple family.

Sultry, your Lavender Crush makes me almost giddy about spring. I have one coming from Regan‘s and that doesn‘t look lavender, it looks purple! So excited!

Sharon, sometimes the SoF is a little more pink and sometimes more lilac. She can age to the color of Blue Girl in a vase and her center stays a lighter color. She is just the greatest rose here: Fragant, very little black spot, lasts on the bush and in a vase..especially when you consider she has around 200 petals! She is a climber and sometimes her blooms can get so large and heavy they nod..but I like that in a climber. I have one SoF and ordered 3 more for spring.

our steelers, Lavender Crush can indeed get very dark purple here..just straight up purple! I got mine as a body bag from Walmart. I really didnt know what to expect. As with other purple toned roses, cool temps will enhance the color.

Look how nice & green the leaves stay..I dont spray here either. (Don't mind the weeds lol)

Spirit of freedom is a climber? How did I miss this!?

DA site says 8ft..It is def climbing here. Im betting it gets at least 12 ft. SoFL Rose has pictures of hers somewhere, on an arch

Great pictures & roses, everyone!

oursteelers - I also loved your description of feeling like you accomplished something.

Kristine - you have the best Lavender Veranda I've ever seen!!!

Thank you

Lavender Veranda is such a perfect little rose . Being small makes it a perfect filler

It's one of those lavender colors that makes me smile.

I have Spirit of Freedom own root in a pot. Got it as a tiny thing. It is now 8 to 9 ft in a container. It has really out grown her pot (15 gal). I really don't know how to root prune.... and am scared to do so for fear of killing her. Right now (of course that could change) she and Earth Angel for their looks and their scent..... just love them. I do not know if SoF does laterals because this is the first year she has bloomed and I am constantly cutting off to bring them inside. I do know that many of the Kordes roses that are NOT listed as climbers do behave as a climber here in South Florida and does put out laterals..... I have a Dark Desire that have on own root (seems to be fending of nematodes.... so far) that gets up to 15 ft. I am constantly chopping him down while fending off his TEETH. But if I don't cut I can pull his long limb lover and he gets flowers all long those canes..... So maybe I will try this with Spirit and see if it works..... I hope so....

There's Ebbtide

I only have 2. Both are David Austins.

Munstead Wood

The Prince

Sharon,

SoF does put out laterals. Just get the main canes a little bent and let some sunshine on those nodes.

WOW 12 ft for an own root is pretty tall! Mine is grafted on DH. I just moved it to an arch with Raspberry Cream Twirl. I wasnt planning to move my OR RCT right now but I discovered her trellis had rusted horribly under the paint. When I moved RCT that whole side of the trellis buckled. She was holding it up lol. Now I have to move everything else too. What a PIA lol.

I have 3 more SoF coming and 2 grafted RCT coming that I was gonna do up an arch with but oh well lol. I will just have to do another one, I guess.

Many Kordes act as climbers here too. Poseidon is def a climber. I guess we need lots of trellises here in FL lol.

Doorenbos Selection (spinosissima)

They don't love pots but I keep thinking I'm about to move)

Capitane John Ingram (moss)

LOVE that moss and Doorenbos. I've only read about the latter so please feel free to spill!!! Als, love The Prince, but it's making me sad as I seemed to have killed the well-rooted cutting I was growing. I guess my vestibule was too cold after all. : ((

Heirloom, Poseidon, Blue Girl or Violet Pride for Texas? Have Angel Face. Love Song, Lavender Crush, Poseidon, Plum Perfect, and Quicksilver coming in February. Have room for one more if I squash them together some. A definite advantage of my age. Whoever buys my house someday will probably pull all out and put in a huge pool and outdoor kitchen and big trampoline for their kids.

I love the colours of these roses, my favorite colours now are they fragrant?

Austin

I’d go with Heirloom or Violets Pride...I don’t think Posedon and Blue Girl like our summers.

What about Lavender Veranda? The small size is appealing and its main draw for me also looks more to blue size of lavender

Austin, southern Oregon we summer heat but not the humidity that you do. Lavender Veranda was in a pot and got pretty neglected and it blackspoted. I striped the leaves planted it and it has taken off in its new home. It is about 18 inches tall and loaded with blooms

If it has fragrance I have noticed but it is such a gorgeous color and it doesn't fade. I like it well enough to get more. They make great fillers.

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Wow beautiful thank you- just read about on it on HMF which I found not very encouraging. I will definitely revisit.. roses gets so big here I find it limiting the size sounds perfect

So pretty. Purple roses have kind of grown on me.

I only have one, Quicksilver.

This is a beautiful thread, I love the rich, vibrant shades in the photos.

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Fading Princess Alexandra of Kent, showing a hint of lavender:

Olivia Rose Miniature

Reviving this thread since I love purple roses so much. I feel like I need another but not sure which would be best in hot dry SoCal. Rein de Violettes has great scent and perfect foliage here in SoCal, but she takes her time between flushes.

That’s a beautiful pic of RdV, Stephanie!

I would like to recommend both of Bedard’s newest mauves that I tried this year.

Perfume Factory blooms a ton and has a strong lemon soapy perfume, sort of like Blue Girl (in scent, not color).

Like No Other is a petal packed rose with a strong lemon rose perfume. It has tidy habit and excellent repeat. I do think the name ’Like No Other’ is quite ironic because it rather resembles Celestial Night.

Ben, they are both lovely! Perfume Factory was bred by Tom Carruth, so they probably have one at Huntington Gardens. I should check next time I’m there. How big are the flowers on LNO?

I love Like No Other. beautiful color !

I grabbed this picture today in 100 degrees

What a pretty rose . Thank you for all of the enablers .

Love song

Man, I went through the whole thread...there are wonderful roses here!!

Stephanie...beyond beautiful!!! Exquisite picture of your RdV!!

Ben - I'd love to get Perfume Factory!!! Thanks for introducing me to it!

Kristine - that's one tough Love Song!!! 100F!! Yikes! Looks amazing!

I love Chartreuse de Parme...lovely fragrance and blooms a lot! It has always had at least 4 blooms on it...and most of the time has a lot! It's my favorite rose this year.

Nicole Carol Miller

Stainless Steel

Carol it’s because of your pictures of Chartreuse de Parme that I ordered one for spring. Then you added good fragrance and I was hooked!

Isn't Chartreuse de Parme beautiful? You are so lucky to be getting one this spring, oursteelers. Carol, your C de OP is a favorite of mine that you grow. I love your Soeur Emmanuelle so much, too. I hope you're still having good weather. We just finished another heat wave, but today should be nice (94F)--after 101F, that's nice. I actually don't mind this, but your cold temps....chattering teeth. It's amazing what we adapt to. Diane

Oooooh! Chartreuse de Parme has an exquisite shape the way each petal reflexes back slightly. Peach Swirl has this look too, which I alway associate with cute green frogs peaking out from between the petals after, sultry’s, one of the Florida ladies, posts.
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5772930/earth-angel-and-peach-swirl

OurSteelers - really? Oh that's flattering! It is truly a great rose!!! I don't know about rose diseases...we only get PM here...and it doesn't get that.

Diane - my daughter is so eager for fall...her allergies go away and she hates the heat. :) I think 94 would be hideous. You are so right...it's what we're use to. Thanks, Diane - Chartreuse de Parme is a WOW rose!! Soeur Emmanuelle makes me happy too!

Stephanie - yes, Sultry's frog pictures!!! I had never known that frogs could hide in rose flowers! :) Yes, CdP (a Delbard rose) is amazing!!!

Hi Carol, I'm following you around the forum, I guess. We're the two night owls--but I had a huge nap late in the evening, so now, of course, I'm wide awake. It was a nice day today--92F, actually, and tomorrow will be cooler yet. Then we have a high of 70F. Can you believe that? We're going into the season of up and down weather. But it's still horribly dry with no rain since May. I feel so badly for California and their awful fires. Over 4000 lightening strikes started the whole mess, and since Aug 15, 1.25million acres have burned, plus five deaths and 3500 structures destroyed. As you can guess, I read all this earlier in the day. We have lucked out with just a few smaller fires this season. I agree with your daughter about fall and allergies--they do get better. I suffer from them, too. Anyway, we had a nice BBQ, and my granddaughter Clare was over. She's feeling better, but the covid mess has been very hard on her. She actually had it, and has been over the stuff for several weeks now. What a relief. Have a nice day tomorrow. I don't suppose Canada has a Labor Day holiday tomorrow. Every day is pretty much the same around here. Diane

Hello my fellow night owl

Hooo Hoooo :)

Yes, we have Labor day holiday tomorrow...although every day is a holiday for us now....like you just said. LOL My daughter came over today...she was just tested for COVID because she's a clerk/medical student at the hospital right now and she had a sore throat so she had to stay home for about 4 days. I'm so glad that Clare is over it and is fine...are there any lingering effects? And I'm glad that you didn't get it. Yes, these horrible forest fires. We've had some in Canmore (about 2 hours away I think from Calgary)...we can smell the smoke in the air. We've had 676 hectares (whatever that means) burn. Doesn't compare to California's fires. We had 29C/84F (so hot!) here on Friday and then went down to 5C/41F and then it's going to go back up to 25C/77F. Kind of wack-a-doodle doo here too. And below freezing on Monday overnight. Booo!!!

I'm sorry to read about the freezing temps Monday overnight. That's too soon. You mentioned moving some of your favorite roses into the garage for that night. What a pain. I'm glad your daughter is OK--close call. Clare is physically fine, I guess, but mentally this whole thing is very hard on her. She's self quarantining just to keep out of harm's way. The consensus seems to be that you get 3-4 months immunity if you've had covid. This isn't just hearsay. So I guess that's good. Stay safe. Diane

Great thread! Over the last
20++years I have gardened in pastel pinks with some dark burgundy/dark pink for depth...Austins mostly. Well now in my my 70ies I have become mad about the oranges and lavenders and all their variations. Cant seem to get enough, still in the old fashion form. I even got a red yellow stripped variety this year and I have always disliked striped. So guys if I am any judge you always have something to look forward to. Enjoying all we passed over gives delight. 😍

Diane - it wasn't much of a pain for me to move them as my husband did the work LOL. He told me he would move 10 roses for me...I coaxed him (wish some complaining from him) to do 15. And then it turns out that it didn't freeze overnight after all. :)

Wow....only 3 or 4 months immunity. I just don't understand how a vaccination would work then. Wouldn't it only last for 3 or 4 months? Yes, I can imagine that this must be difficult for Clare (and for you too) as this is so new we don't have any long term health forecasts. This is a hard thing to mentally accept that this may be our new reality. You stay safe too. :)

Austinkisses - I love your idea about depth from different shades of pinks. How lovely!! And WELCOME to the oranges and lavenders!!! I love them!! Which red/yellow did you get? Simisbald? (sp)

Carol, you probably had better weather than we had. We had 12+ hours of wind, which I thought would tear everything to bits. The temp dropped about 30 degrees, which I expected, and with that kind of drop, you get a lot of wind. Happily, there was very little rose damage, those tough beauties, but there were tumbleweeds all over the yard, and a gazillion leaves and twigs that had been torn from the trees. The potted peppers kept blowing over, and that was a pain. I'm glad you didn't have a freeze. Have they predicted any during the next week or two? Your poor husband who had to move those roses for nothing. The immunity thing is a big problem for vaccines in that we may end up with something like the flu vaccines, needing a new one every year, while they tinker with it for each new season. I hope this doesn't happen. Even worse, would something like the common cold, also a coronavirus. We've never come up with a cold vaccine because there are so many cold viruses out there that a vaccine against one of them would be next to useless. Diane

Diane - yeah, we didn't have terrible winds...we we probably did have better weather than you did. Yeesh! I'm glad there was very little rose damage for you. :)

We have one tree in our yard that is totally leafless now...but it's a tree that has been trying to die ever since we had a HUGE dump of snow in August about 5 years ago. Leaves are definitely falling though. Long range weather is for nights way above zero (lowest is 5 degrees above zero) for at least the next 2 weeks. So we're doing good here again. :)

We'd probably have to have vaccinations every 4 months. Yes, it would be worse if it turns out to be like the common cold. Scary, scary times. :(