@JessicaS Purple roses can often show a range of colours. Many go magenta pink or burgundy red in hot weather but stay dark purple when it is cold. The Prince can have all these colours, it is a similar colour range as Munstead Wood but slightly darker and deeper.
Thank you @edhelka - I didnt know that, really interesting. They really are absolutely stunning - I love the burgundy shades as well as purple so I really better add that one to the wish list!
The prince is such a special rose. I had it in my shopping basket along with sweet mademoiselle and princess charlene de monaco on rose.it, and then i kept dithering about whether to buy more roses and then it was too late to get before brexit. But its ok, I will enjoy looking at photos from your garden.
@edhelka, the purple rose is Rhapsody in Blue as @JessicaS rightly says. I thought I'd killed it in 2019 after moving it for the millionth time but last year it came back looking happy and got to about 5'.
@Victoria Sponge lovely rose isnt it? You can really cut that back hard apparently and its really tough, the rose nursery I got it from told me to do that. It seems to be very content and easy going! Prolific too, its still going now. Took this in height of summer.
@Victoria Sponge It looked more double to me in the photo and with larger blooms. Does it really have so big blooms or are those clusters in the photo? It looks really good in your flower bed.
I'm not sure if the photo is a bit deceptive @edhelka, I'd guess the flowers are about 3" off the top of my head, here's one with a knautia flower hopefully to show scale. I suppose it's a loose double.
Yes it's a nice tough plant @JessicaS and I'm glad it didn't die as I really like the murky colour mix it puts out. I don't think I've ever cut it back very hard, to be honest I'm not sure if it's a shrub or a floribunda. I tend to keep it quite tall and just cut out the sad and old bits.
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Yes it's a nice tough plant @JessicaS and I'm glad it didn't die as I really like the murky colour mix it puts out. I don't think I've ever cut it back very hard, to be honest I'm not sure if it's a shrub or a floribunda. I tend to keep it quite tall and just cut out the sad and old bits.
Still pushing out the odd flower bud now.
Is The Prince thorny like Munstead Wood?