Breeding stock only

• PERBLUOP01
• Perennially Yours

Bred by André Carl (United States, 2012).

Hybrid Multiflora.  

Purple to lilac, white center, ages to rose-pink .  Moderate, sweet fragrance.  5 petals.  Average diameter 1".  Small, single (4-8 petals), in large clusters, cupped, open bloom form.  Prolific, blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Small, rounded buds.  

Tall, climbing, few or no prickles/thorns, upright, well-branched.  Small, semi-glossy, light green, leathery foliage.  3 to 7 leaflets.  

Height: 4' to 12' (120 to 365cm).  Width: 2' to 5' (60 to 150cm).

USDA zone 4a and warmer.  Can be used for beds and borders, container rose, garden, hedge, landscape, pillar or shrub.  Very hardy.  very vigorous.  a good subject for pegging.  can be grown as a shrub.  can be trained as a climber.  drought resistant.  flowers drop off cleanly.  heat tolerant.  produces decorative hips.  rain tolerant.  shade tolerant.  suitable for a pillar.  Disease susceptibility: disease resistant, blackspot resistant, mildew resistant.  Remove spent blooms to encourage re-bloom.  Can be grown as a climber in mild climates.  Can be grown in the ground or in a container (container requires winter protection).  Can be pruned to maintain a shorter habit.  Needs little care; relatively disease-free and quite hardy.  

This rose is a surprise. Surprising in that I decided to keep it and put it in the garden. I grew out many open pollinated seedlings from Perennial Blue and this is the only one I kept. Mostly by accident.

The rose spent the first 6 years in a two gallon pot and still it flourished and bloomed well. It survived summers of 90+ degrees with barely any water in this small 2 gallon pot and then would spend the cold winters (sometimes down to -20 degrees) above ground being used as a weight to prevent the wind from whipping off the tarp protecting other seedling pots. Through it all, this plant barely had any disease issues, never died back, and always bloomed.

It has such simple blooms, especially when compared to other seedlings and when compared to its parent and sibling seedlings. The color wasn't the rich purples that the others had - just a simple lavender-pink fading towards white in the center. It does not produce blooms which are uniquely shaped blooms or the much sought after high-centered hybrid tea or nostalgic old-fashioned quartered, it has just 5 simple petals. But those simple blooms, set behind the healthy, light-green foliage and the thornless canes are quite showy in mass.

I'm glad I never could never bring myself to cull it like the others. The Name Perennially Yours is a reference to that fact.