It looks a nice healthy rose to me, gorgeous colour. Isn't S.Butterfly Blue amazing? I rarely get frost here and no snow, but BB survives in my summer heat with temps in the 90- 100+ range and flowers just as profusely as in cooler months. Same goes for alyssum ( which can become a bit of a weed... but a pretty one).

Thru unusual circumstance 2 Brilliant Verandas ended up in my yard again. This one stayed fairly clean. The other two roses down has bs on a good portion of it's leaves. I shovel pruned one long ago for severe black spot. My soil is much nicer now so time will tell.

ozmelode, SBB does amaze me. It was always too wet here for it too survive thru winter. I plant it between daylilies. The daylilies take most if not all of the moisture and SBB is quite happy.

Here anyway alyssum does not reseed. I have always removed it in fall as I thought it was frost tender. I was wrong.

Patty, that is a beautiful rose. I can't believe how good it looks, along with your scabiosa and alyssum. Everything is frozen solid here with highs in the twenties (about 24 today), and lows from 11-13 degrees. We are having a terrible cold wave with a little bit of snow here and there. It's been almost three weeks since I've seen a rose bloom. I watch the weather map, and the cold wave descended from western Canada down into the upper Western states. Detroit and Chicago were balmy compared to us. But now the the cold is further descending over the entire nation like a giant gray blanket--bleah. For three years in a row, November has been our worst month. Everything is wrecked early so we can sit around viewing the stubble for the rest of winter. Whine. Please, mail me a few roses. Diane

Agreed, all other roses and perennials are done. Could not believe my eyes when I saw this on the side of the house. So far this is not any different a weather pattern. Well a bit with the jet stream coming up from Texas and Oklahoma. Those are the winters that bury us in snow. Winter is just too long!

I do so feel for you guys with the ridiculously hot weather followed to soon by winter.

It's nice to see blooms in your garden after 7 days of snow! :-) It's pretty cold here 30F right now. I had more than 20 Scabiosa Butterfly Blue one summer, but they didnt come back the next year, could be the rabbits.

Thank you summersrhythm, it was actually one day of sopping heavy wet snow that flatten them all. Followed by the usual cold snap. Only had one cane that fractured on Lemon Fizz. But this one came out looking as thou nothing had happened.

Still keep hoping for that above normal winter. :-)

Sorry so late answering but looking good Patty!

Thanks Jim

So pretty and it gets extra kudos for surviving the snow! Not one thing left blooming in my yard.

It looks like you are getting more snow......11"? ?

Thank you seil. It's the last rose with a blooming branch. Will learn to deal with a little black spot. The blooms are small on the bush. Amazed at how many were on it.

That one went west and north of here.

I love scabosias!!! Where I used to walk (different city), there was this huge, huge, huge dog park, and at one point there was this enormous field of scabosias that bloomed only in the spring (well, the fields were always mowed after the first bloom. It was gorgeous - this big field of purple.

Your rose looks so happy!! Such a pretty red.

Carol

Thanks Carol, I've come to appreciate this plant a lot. I know many think it look like a weed. My daughter has always called them Dr. Seuss after his crazy hat. They are easy to propagate. They behave themselves and stay short. I've got lots of them out their and they all are still in flower. I'll take it any day.