I absolutely love this rose, I has the deep purple color of it’s Parent plant with larger fragrant blooms. I bought my plant last year after drooling over internet pictures of Ebb Tide, while I was stationed in Afghanistan. When I came back home I dragged my husband to all the nursery’s selling roses looking for the plant. Oddly enough I did have a hard time finding it. One Nursery I stopped at had there entire rose stock destroyed by deer and many others just did not carry Weeks Roses or if they did only a few varieties. Finally at a farmers Market I spotted a beautiful purple bloom mixed in the colorful potted assembly of divas… Ebb Tide? I walked over flipped the tag to reveal it’s was actually Twilight Zone. I was a bit disappointed. This was the closest I’d managed to get to Ebb tide so far and this rose still wasn’t it. The Rose dealer kindly explained that he no longer carried Ebb tide but this was in fact Ebb Tides offspring! “Really, this is it’s offspring huh?” He explained have it was an improved variety and that he very much like this particular rose. I thanked him and told him I’d think about it. Because it still wasn’t Ebb Tide and in my head this was the rose that I wanted. So I continued to walk around the market enjoying the music, lamb kabobs and picking through vegetable and herb starts but a picture of that purple bloom was what was really on my mind. My husband looked at me and knew what I was thinking, He smiled “Go get it.” So I did and I don’t regret it. I recently talked with Same Dealer at another Farmers because I really love to talk to rose people and see whats new and what types grow best out in our region of rainy winters and very dry summers. I of course mentioned I loved Twilight Zone and it was growing great and producing lots of “Nose in the rose blooms.” He smiled and agreed he liked that rose but he was disappointed he wasn’t able to get it this season. He said he was big on selling it last yeah because he really liked it and was trying to get is some publicity but weeks hadn’t had it available bare root though it sounds like he will have it again for next season. So we’ll see as for me I’m quite happy with mine but I wonder does anyone else grow this rose?
Lucky encounter, I’d lay odds if fertile you get some good clean op. Don’t dilute with just anything if using pollen.
Ebb tide does have some problems.
Hope you sent back a mission flag or two and took advantage of the markets, carpets, gem stones.
Neil
Thanks Neil, I think ,I will try some op’s from Twilight Zone 
As for taking advantage of the markets I wasn’t really in Bagram long enough but I defiantly did some shopping in Kirghistan. And I know I should have sent a flag home but I never got around to it. My husband did though, he deployed a few months before did.
Might you have seen Rosa hulthemia persica growing in the scrub while you were over there in Afghanstan, per chance?
I saw dusky colored plants like it, but nothing ever in bloom plus I wasn’t looking. I never realized a rose could live in such harsh conditions. It looks like a succulent. So is this were the Hulthemias originate?