Growing Purple Flowering Roses
Below you will find a list of Roses from our plant database that are purple flowering or have purple as one of the bloom colors. If you click any of the photos, you will see a Virtual Plant Tag that may contain plant descriptions, usage suggestions and a link to where you can buy that plant for your landscaping. These rose plants can be considered shrubs, bushes, groundcovers or flowering broadleaf evergreens.
Don't forget about roses when you are considering purple flowered shrubs. A huge movement in rose breeding is bringing pest-free and disease-free landscape roses. To get flowering shrubs that flower spring through frost and are low maintenance is exactly what today's busy homeowners are looking for. New roses can be a great answer. Don't think of roses as just roses; think of them as garden shrubs that also happen to be roses.
This list of roses with purple blooms is a mix of tried and true Heirloom or Antique varieties that have stood the test of time, contemporary varieties bred for exceptional bloom power and the promising, new developments of trouble-free landscape roses that range from low-growing types to regular shrubs to climbing and tree-roses. Some of them are grafted and some are now being grown on their own roots with new cloning methods to withstand freeze problems encountered in the past. Combined rose interest is having a major resurgence providing the gardener with easy to care for and rewarding plants that you'll be glad you decided to try. Purple favorites include: 'Blueberry Hill', 'Ebb Tide™', 'Falstaff' a David Austin® rose, 'Fragrant Plum', 'Intrigue', 'Make Believe', 'Midnight Blue™' and 'Purple Pavement' which are groundcover roses, 'Neptune', 'Night Owl', the Old Garden Roses 'Apothecary's Rose', 'Belle de Crecy', 'Cardinal de Richelieu' and 'Charles de Mills', 'Purple Heart™', 'Purple Simplicity®', 'Purple Tiger', 'Rhapsody in Blue', 'Ruby Pendant', Rugosa or Saltspray rose 'Rubra' which is purple or magenta, 'The Prince', 'Stephen's Big Purple Rose' and 'Wild Blue Yonder™'.
Roses with purple flowers add a special grace to a landscape. The strong, vibrant purple color can be enjoyed throughout the season and blends well with lavender, magenta, orchid, lilac, violet, white, blue, pink and looks particularly striking mixed with green and white variegated foliage on shrubs, groundcovers and evergreens and vines. An interesting new combination that adds more flower power in the garden is growing the new, compact Clematis vines among other landscape plants. Having Clematis vine flowers sprinkled among the bright blossoms of rose plants is a lovely, striking blend.
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