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Rose Blue For You

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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    If the white and pink buds definitely aren't on a sucker from the rootstock, then maybe it's either a reversion or a sport (ie genetic mutation).
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Maybe it's a faulty graft ... it sometimes happens and a bud from the rootstock sort of 'breaks through' .and is to all intents and purposes 'a sucker' although it looks as if it's above the graft point ... I expect there's a technical term for it ... @marlorena will know. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    ..without further photos of the actual stem in question, one cannot be sure..

    .. if the member is certain it's not a sucker, then it may be a sport, perhaps a throwback to an earlier rose in its ancestry.. this rose has several unnamed seedlings by Kidderminster breeder Len Scrivens in its lineage..  Len has produced some wonderful roses.. but who knows what he used..  
    East Anglia, England
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    When it stops raining I'll get a picture of the stem.  Funny though the other one also has different coloured buds to what it normally has
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Unfortunately the bud as it opened got bashed by heavy wind and rain
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    The other Blue for You is coming out the usual colour
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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Really difficult to get down and get photo of stem,it's not a very big shrub
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