Ebb Tide™ Floribunda Rose

True purple roses are very rare, and this splendid plummy/royal purple variety combines intensity of color with a heavenly fragrance and a magnificent petal-packed flower form. Bred by one of the premier American rosarians at work today, Ebb Tide™ is nothing short of a modern masterpiece.

These flowers are fully 4 inches wide, boasting up to 40 gently reflexed petals of deepest purple around a small frilly yellow center, which won't reveal itself until the blooms are fully extended and mature. From the petals emanates a rich, evocative, heady clove-like fragrance that fills garden or home with the essence of the summer rose garden.

Ebb Tide™ is a floribunda, so the blooms arise in small clusters, each bud opening on its own schedule, so that a single snip can bring you a bouquet of buds and blooms that lasts for weeks in the vase. Ebb Tide™ flowers in waves all summer long, banked by medium-sized, bright green semi-glossy foliage. Expect the plant to reach up to 4 feet high and wide, or somewhat smaller in containers.

This beauty is the creation of Tom Carruth, who has grown several recent All-America Rose Selection winners. Introduced in 2006, it includes in its parentage Sweet Chariot and Blue Nile, both outstanding blue/purple cultivars, but we here at Jackson & Perkins must say that we believe Ebb Tide™ easily outdoes its forebears in color intensity. Fragrance, form, and color -- we predict that you will fall in love with this outstanding floribunda the very first season!