I do love my Nuits and how it suckers. Please post photos of Nightmoss if you can Carol.

Thanks, Sheila! You grow so many wonderful roses!!

I adore my Nuits, too. I can see exactly why Paul bred Nuits and TS. My Nightmoss is several years older than Nuits and in a larger pot, but Nuits has been suckering pretty much since its infancy. Nuits is even sending stolons through the drainage holes of its upsized pot! Nightmoss, on the other hand hasn’t suckered at all. It’s just a tidy 5 gallon rose. My TS is in a bed of amended clay and is around 15 years old. It suckers in the vicinty of the mother plant, and every year, I slice some babies and make more roses.

I got sidetracked when Nightmoss bloomed this year and missed my photo opportunity, darn it! Nm’s bloom coincides with the end of my daughter’s school year and the prep for summer school. I’ll see if I have some accessible shots from years past. Nm is a beauty! If you don’t grow this Barden rose yet, you should definitely consider it. It’s fantastically fragrant and so dark and beautiful!

Thank you again for posting your enabling photos of Dakota Redwing! Mine has been offering lots of magnificent, intensely perfumed, red velvet blooms for such a small plant. I can hardly wait to move it out of my driveway nursery and into a decorative pot in the garden! After temps cool down from 113! 😱

Carol

I love those deep crimson colors, Carol. I am excited to hear about Nightmoss.

I wish this one came available more often! At the moment I can't get any more roses due in part to a temporary move to another state, but someday I'd like to grow Nightmoss! It sounds wonderful based on your description, Carol.

K S, you aren't alone in wishing that it was more available. Too bad Rogue Valley Roses is the only nursery that has it.

Paul, I think propagating and offering more Nightmoss would be wonderful! Do you also have some photos of yours that you could share with us? The last few years have been a bit nuts around here, and my rose photo library is a tangled mess. And honestly, my photos don’t compare with yours by a long shot! Thank you so much for answering the suckering question. I think Nightmoss is a good candidate for my front bed. I love so many things about this rose, and its polite spread is one more bonus. A gentle spreader is rare in the dark purple OGR world! Carol

@User I second the idea of propagating and offering more Nightmoss as being wonderful.

I wish RVR stocked your roses more, Paul, and sent out the correct rose!

Alana8aSc and KS, have y’all tried reaching out to Rogue Valley Roses in writing to request Nightmoss’ possible availability? I usu usually get a response from them when I use the contact us form on their page. I can’t say their responses to my inquiries are very encouraging but the more people enquire the more they might get a clue?

Hi all, anyone here familiar with the zone hardiness for Nightmoss? I have one sitting in my shopping cart, but I'm zone 5 and have heard it may not be zone 5 hardy.

I think you should give Nightmoss a try, Jennifer.

Jennifer, one parent of NM, Nuits de Young, is listed as hardy to Z3b, the other parent, Tuscany Superb, is listed as Z4b. I can't imagine NM would be any less hardy than 4b. Genetics can play tricks, for sure, but in this case I think you're safe.

Thank you, that seems pretty likely that it should be fine in zone 5b. I'll give it a gamble. :)