This is my first seedling to bloom and I’m very happy with what turned out. It’s an ‘Ebb Tide’ x ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ seedling that’s a nice purple with good spice scent. I look forward to seeing how it matures over this season. My first purple!
Oh, that’s cute!
Impressive.
Very pretty Rob! Want it tested in California? hehehe Kim
Thanks guys! I’m excited about this one. Hopefully it’s a keeper and if it is I will definitely need a testing site in California Kim. 
Approx. how big is the flower?
Hi Rob,
Very nice indeed! I like the clear, intense coloring. And it does look like it would have fragrance.
Jim Sproul
Thank you both. George the flower is approximately 1 3/4" across on a 3" plant.
Jim, I was very pleased that it has good scent…it would have been very disappointing had it not. I’m hoping that as it matures petal count will increase and maybe the color might darken with scent getting stronger.
It would be grand if it is heaps more floriferous than mom!
Its really cool. Congrats!
WOW, I’m green with envy. The petals have a velvety look. I crossed Hertige X Burgundy Iceberg last Spring hoping to get a nice purple and so far two of the seedlings have bloomed and they are both White.
I hope so too George!
Thank you Joan. Hoping you get some good purples from your cross.
Joan, haven’t you learned the rules for color inheritance? Orange x purple = pink. Red x russet = pink. Virtually all else results in white. And, most crosses, no matter how many petals most often produce five to seven petals and more often than not, pink. Peter is even more at work in genetics than anywhere else. Too bad his Principals seem so universal. Kim
Burgundy Iceberg selfs I have grown out had white blooms…I am not sure the color of BI transmits easily, if at all!
Burgundy Iceberg as you know is a sport and probably has recessive genes,selfing it carries through the dominant white gene. The white blooming seedlings you grew, was the structure of the blooms similar to Iceberg.
Try BI pollen on some thing which colour can be changed easily, I use a rose of my own called MIMAS , its beauty, gets dominated by what ever you put on it (colour or structure) but still retains it prolific repeat flowering.
I dont self cross, I think it can bring out nasty’s deep within the closet.
Rob, can you see any features of RIB coming through in this one, so far in its life?
Your MIMAS sounds very much like Golden Angel and Wichuranas, Warren. So many Wichurana hybrids take on the flower characteristics of the pollen parent and Golden Angel crosses often look more like the pollen parent than itself.
George,
Not yet that I can tell but it’s a bit early.
Rob
I knew Burgundy Iceberg was a sport and wondered if the white was a dominant gene. I think I will try it with other purples and see what happens.
Last fall, Jim Delahanty and I visited Bartje Miller at the Wrigley Gardens, home of the Tournament of Roses. They had two Burgundy Iceberg bushes which were quite elongated in full sun. I suggested he may want to take cuttings of the longest canes, with Bartje’s permission. He did and has propagated them. They pulled out the plants the next week as they weren’t HTs. I appears we may have a climbing sport of Burgundy Iceberg. It’s definitely showing desire to climb.
It was only a matter of time for the climbing BI version to show up. Well done!