Blue Moon is available from Two Sisters Roses in Okla. and from Palatine Roses in Canada, among others. If it managed in the heat of Louisiana you should be able to grow it in Texas. There have been many lavender floribunda and shrub roses introduced more recently and discussed on this forum; try a google search. All lavenders seem to be prone to blackspot; spraying every 7 to 10 days with Bayer Advanced Disease Control is the best answer. For more info on this rose, go to helpmefind.com/roses.

Thank you. From what I was able to find online Blue Moon is not a repeat bloomer. Do you think I have the name right? It did look like that. Do they sell the Bayer Advance Disease Control at places like Home Depot or do you have to order it? I have some type of Bayer that I have been using on the first ones I got a few Months ago. I rescued them from going in the trash at Walmart, lol. They smelled good and one had the most georgeous bloom just a week later. It was worth it for that one bloom alone. It also was strange it bloomed one color on one side of the bush and another on the other side. I am looking forward to this forum and all the help I am sure I will need, lol. Its been a while and I only grew them for a couple of years before I moved. Here are some pics of the strange but lovely one. I will check some more on the lavender one.

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Blue Moon is a HT so it must be a repeat bloomer.
Bayer Advanced disease control (active ingredient is tebuconazole) is available at Lowe's. Maybe HD also carries it in my town I didn't find it at HD in the past two years.

Thanks. The only place I had found online that had it said it didn't repeat for them. I think it was a different one. I can't find much info on it. I'm going to try the place in Oklahoma mentioned earlier. I will check for the Bayer at Lowes if its not what I already have. I'll check tomorrow. It is a systemic granular form that I have but have to wait til I can see to get in the shed tomorrow to check the exact name.

Your bargain from Walmart could be two different roses grafted onto the same rootstock, or (can't tell from the foliage) an orange bicolor which fades to pink & white. There are very few roses that carry different colors of bloom at the same time-- more likely this was an accident on the assembly line!!

I assume the roses sold at Walmart are mostly grafted onto some standard rootstock and sometimes the rootstock variety will send up shoots, which will then have their own characteristic blooms. I can't be sure from the photo but the pale pink blooms on your plant resemble the rootstock 'Manetti'. Find the bud union on your plant (a swollen area at the base of the plant where the graft was made) and see if the canes with the light pink blooms originate from below this. If they do, they are the rootstock variety.

Here is a link that might be useful: The Rootstock, Manetti

That was the first thing I checked to see if it was below the bud union but it was not. There are 2 definite large branches that begin above the swollen base so it is possible 2 kinds were accidentally grafted I suppose. I never thought about that. I can't wait til it blooms again. It went dormant shortly after it bloomed but I will see what it looks like next time. It is already begining to leaf out again. Its still in the pot so I may bring it inside the garage with my tropicals if we have another hard freeze.

There is a Buck rose called Blue Skies. It's very pretty and Bucks are (supposedly, I haven't tried yet) easy to grow.

My new garden centerpiece arrives soon-- Lavender Dream, a shrub rose bred in the Netherlands which won an ADR award for disease resistance. I seem to be on a mauve/purple/lavender streak as I also have Sweet Chariot, Night Owl, Ebb Tide, Escapade, and Distant Drums!

There is also Blue Girl which I bought in 1999. It is still growing for me and I love the fragrance. I will never forget though, my teenaged daughter's comment...."MOm, I don't mean anything bad by this but isn't that the color people turn when they are choked?"

Blue girl was what I ended up getting. I couldn't find blue moon. It has a few leaf buds breaking so hopefully it will do good. It was my first bare root rose.

Blue Moon repeats. Other lavenders I have are Yves Piaget (which is not really lavender), Melody Parfum which is lavender. Blue Girl which is faintly bluish-pinkish lavender. I have some others but cannot recall their names right off the top of my head but Blueberry Hill is a beauty.

Angel Face has wonderful smell for lavendar. I can't remember about repeat bloom since we sold that house. Hope your Blue Girl works out great!

The rose which is closest to "Lavender-Blue" is the HP, 'Reine des Violettes,' which is also fragrant, and thornless.

Jeri

Here is a link that might be useful:

So, you bought Blue Girl!

There are two lavender hybrid tea roses that are sold under the name "Blue Girl" and one is mis-named and actually Blue Moon -- you may have gotten the rose you were looking for after all!

Both do well in my area, and I hope your new plant does well for you, whichever it is.

By the way, if it wasn't mentioned, many of us use a rose search site called HelpMeFind.com. I will put a link below to the rose search page:

Here is a link that might be useful: HelpMeFind rose search

Sometimes those cheap garden center mystery roses are a lot of fun; fun to see what you've actually got, because they're so often mis-labeled. One of my best red hybrid teas ever was a mis-labeled rose that was supposed to be Ole' but was definitely NOT. Even with the help of the whole local rose society, I never did figure out what that big scentless, super-thorny rose was. Best wishes for your Blue Girl/Blue Moon--whichever.

I currently have 3 large mauve roses: Fragrant Plum, Lagerfeld, and Blue Skies. Of the three, the first two are both wonderfully fragrant. Blue Skies is not, but it is the "bluest" of the lavenders. And it's form is wonderful. All three have just average blackspot resistance, which means around here I have to spray them. But they're all worth it.

Blue moon is still available from Palatine roses. And believe me they send the very best roses what you can get.

I would call Palatine and ask about the repeat.

Blue girl didn't do too well in th eastern part of the country. Blue Birl is a Kordes rose while Blue Moon was bred by Tantau.

Here is a link that might be useful: Blue Moon at Palatine roses