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Black rose
Wills
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Hi folks,
I have been buying roses and now my daughter wants in on the act 
what she is looking for is a true black rose does anyone know of a reputable online company where I could have a look I have been on David Austin site but they only have a dark red crimson one.
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Oh i would love to know if that exists, sounds beautiful in a strange way....
Hi pansyface,
I'm just getting into roses and there is companies that I have never heard of claiming to be selling them do u think I will have to settle for a dark red 1.
Pansy is right, there is no true black rose.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
There's no such thing as a true black rose - there are some gorgeous very deep red ones - work your way through the deep red roses on these pages https://www.classicroses.co.uk/roses.html?p=1&pbr_rose_colour=15
There are some absolute beauties.
My late mother used to have a rose which she called her Black Rose, but it was a very deep red HT rose - so deep that the shadows in the folds of the petals looked black, but the rest of the petals were a deep crimson.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
One of the darkest is 'Louis XIV', which is also known as 'Nigrette'...
https://www.classicroses.co.uk/roses/louis-xiv-shrub-rose.html
You might also like 'Munstead Wood'
Muddleup So you can't think of anything more contrived or manipulated than a black rose should roses only be of bright colours or ones that fit in with your opinion the reason I have come on to the forum is because that is my daughters favourite colour does this also mean that she is contrived and manipulated??
Marlorena.
Thanks I will have a look.
Wills ... no need to be cross ... a black rose would have to be contrived and manipulated because the gene for black does not exist in roses ... in fact I don't think it exists in any natural form, because true black is not a 'colour' ... it is the absence of reflected light.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This is how you get 'black' roses http://buyblackroses.com/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Malorena that is an awesome colour rose....
wills , if i can find a deep one like maolrena's picture that climbs, it would fab on my new arch with a peach/apricot one the other side
we all like different things wills, i love the dark colours, bought choc cosmos this year and my first dahlia is karma choc, love the richness of the dark colours and love the freshness of whites...what about this for unusual...again not everyones choice...
Our daughter likes purple and black flowers. We have planted tulips in various shades of purple for her and also Queen of the Night tulips which are supposedly black but turned out to be purple/black - she was very pleased with them and we contrasted these with some creamy white tulips.
Yes not everyone has the same taste thank goodness - we welcome variety..