Lavender Roses today
Tomorrow will be purple/purple red but today is for lavender. People often try the lavenders while trying to get the elusive blue rose but I’m pretty happy when they just stay lavender and don’t turn pink!
Quicksilver. Probably my best lavender. Healthy and grows like a beast. Biggest con is lack of fragrance
Angel Face-pretty but kinda puny here
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oursteelers 8B PNW
3 months agoNeptune. It took three years for this one to turn lavender! Always bloomed bright pink but the past couple of years itnis finally showing its true colors
Le Petite Prince-this one is a gangly wonky grafted beast. Horrible looking plant but the fragrance makes it worth it. I’m trying to propagate it to see if own root might be a more manageable option
The Pride-it feels almost sacrilegious to say this but I expected more…unusual coloring from this one. I had hoped it would be one for the odd colored list but it’s pretty much lavender
Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
3 months agoOh boy, lavender lavender, I went a little crazy with lavender aftet telling Lavenderlace ( I wonder how she is doing ) that I didnt like lavender roses.
Charles De Gaulle
Quicksilver
Quicksilver
Violets Pride
Plume perfect not looking very plum
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Markay MD-Zone 7A (8A on new map)
3 months agoPoseidon has been a great rose here and is about 6 ft tall in my garden.
I have Quicksilver, but it hasn’t really eatablished yet. My other lavender rose is Frances Sims bred by Linda Loe of Long ago roses.
Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
3 months agoMarkay MD-Zone 7A (8A on new map)
3 months ago
catspa_zone9sunset14
3 months agoI love lavender roses but only have a few, and then only have photos of the one I've had for the longest time, 'Lilac Charm'. Here it is the Ugliest. Shrub. Ever. Pathetic, even! But the blooms are sublime, and it was especially good last year after the buckets of rain we got. Here it is with Iris graminea, which is highly fragrant and smells like plums (hence its common name, plum tart iris) and is, without doubt, my favorite of all the irises I grow.
judijunebugarizonazn8
3 months agoLove Song, of course. Diane has posted so many luscious photos of this one that I had to get one myself. I feel sad that it isn’t fragrant but I love it anyway!
Does Vineyard song count as lavender?
Angel Face is another one that Diane enabled me on.
susan9santabarbara
3 months agoTwice in a Blue Moon (first pic taken 1/14/24, second pic taken 1/16/24)
Monet
Charles de Gaulle
Love Song
sylviaww 9a,hot dry Inland SoCal
3 months agoLove Song. Diane was right - it loves hot dry climates.
Raspberry Cream Twirl - very vigorous, delightful.
cab84
3 months agoThe Pride. I was pleasantly surprised at how well this one did in its first year.
Plum Perfect. At the start of summer I was planning on shovel pruning this rose if it didn’t perform better, but it looked great so it gets to stay.
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Lilyfinch z9a Murrieta Ca
3 months agoOoo I love a good lavender !
I have a few Japanese ones that I lost the tags on and my memory is foggy .
One thing I love about these threads is that we can see many different photos of the same rose in different gardens and they are all so beautiful!
Either lilas or illias cant recall but it hilds blooms forever
Lost tag but the translation was something like ” almost blue ”
Poseiden
No name , sorry
Love song , so glad i hsve this one !
Violets pride , the spring flush is more blooms than i ever imagine
Lilyfinch z9a Murrieta Ca
3 months agoRainy blue .. really excited ro see it this year !
No name , sorry !
quicksilver and emilia plater clem
erasmus_gw
3 months agoThat's the best Quicksilver I've seen, oursteelers. I have an own root plant of it that has never had a pretty bloom. It has just struggled to survive where I've got it. It HAS put on some size so I hope this year it'll have the energy to produce some pretty blooms.
Markay, thanks re Frances Sims. It is a tough, healthy plant here too. Color varies quite a bit. It has a nice fragrance.
Here's English Perfume. My plant of it is not great but it repeats well and seems pretty tough. I got it after seeing Sara Ann's pictures.
Vineyard Song
Blue River...weak plant
Blue Moon Stone
Mrs. Woods Lavender Pink Noisette....has a lot of pink usually
Sweet Chariot
Veilchenblau
Yesterday
Yesterday
oursteelers 8B PNW
3 months agosusan9santabarbara
3 months ago
rosecanadian
3 months agolast modified: 3 months agoHoly COW!!!!! These pictures are sublime...the amount of blooms, the colors...I'm in rose heaven!!! :) :) :) Thank you everyone for these gorgeous pictures!!! I have a few purples, so let's see....
Stainless Steel
Chartreuse de Parme
Nicole Carol Miller
bart bart
3 months agooursteelers 8B PNW
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Beth Hana
3 months agoHere's my lavenders:
BLUE BIRD
BLUE GIRL
BLUSHING LAVENDER
COUTURE ROSE TILIA
ENCHANTED EVENING
LAVENDER VERANDA
SILVER LININGS
SILVER SPOON
SILVERY LIGHT
TWICE IN A BLUE MOON
oursteelers 8B PNW
3 months agoerasmus_gw
3 months agorosecanadian
3 months agolast modified: 3 months agoOursteelers - really? Maybe your heat is too much for the blooms to look like that. NCM has many looks. I'll see what else I can find.
Nicole Carol Miller...I love this rose. This is from August, so it was probably a hot day.
Beth - your lavenders are all beautiful...my favorite is your Blue Bird!!Bishop's Castle has a lavender cast to the blooms.
Viole'ts Pride
sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
3 months agolast modified: 3 months agoCharles Rennie Mackintosh
Angel Face
Poseidon with a similar colored globba ginger bloom
Quicksilver
Spirit of Freedom
seasiderooftop
3 months ago
Kristine LeGault 8a pnw