Minerva is beautiful! Is it sold in the US? Have not heard of it..........

I've had Ebb Tide sine June this year. It's an absolutely beautiful rose with a wafting sent. It did turn magenta in the Summer but the fall flush has had the ost purple flowers I've ever seen on a rose. It's also very healthy in my clay soil. I really would reccomend it!

Minerva is new to me, and I don't think it's sold in the US. I grow three Ebb Tide, two since 2007. They have been excellent bloomers and display deep purples, though in their first years there was some fading in our hot summers. This has lessened over the years. Only Twilight Zone has a deeper purple than Ebb Tide. ET has a lovely sweet scent and is a medium sized floribunda for me. It's growth habit is not the most uniform, but it's OK. We don't have black spot in this dry climate, so none of my roses get that scourge, thankfully. Here are a few photos. Diane

after several hard frosts

These photos of ebb tide looks amazing.... But since Diane mentioned twilight zone have deeper purple I would check that one too... 🙂

Thanks, Shanker. It could be hard to choose between the two roses. I see that Minerva seems to be only available in Belgium. Here's Twilight Zone. It's a taller grandiflora rose. Diane

@Diane Brakefield All your roses always look so exquisite!! What do you feed them? I have ebb tide own root and its not grown much for me.

Thank you, purillisa. A lot of roses will do better grafted, and I'll bet Ebb Tide is one of them. My three ETs are grafted. I dump on some really excellent compost about now around each rose (almost finished with that); at the end of February, each rose gets Plant Tone; and a few weeds later, each rose gets Lilly Miller organic granular fertilizer for acid loving plants (because our soil is alkaline); but regular Lilly Milly would be better if you have acid soil. All but two of my roses are grafted, which I prefer. The two own root, Julia Child and Abe Darby, are inferior to the grafted plants, I think. I speak for myself only on this subject. My roses are mostly grafted on Dr Huey, but I have quite a few grafted on multiflora rootstock. Good luck with Ebb Tide. Diane

Thank you so much, @Diane Brakefield. I will follow your process. Will put in compost manure this week.