
Not my plant, but I love it. This is ‘Veilchenblau’, a climbing rose bred in 1909. Like many older roses, it is small-flowered and only blooms once a year, but it remains the truest purple rose I’ve ever seen in person.

Not my plant, but I love it. This is ‘Veilchenblau’, a climbing rose bred in 1909. Like many older roses, it is small-flowered and only blooms once a year, but it remains the truest purple rose I’ve ever seen in person.