By the way this Outta the Blue (Heirloom baby band) is starting its second year. Planted this rose in June of 2010.

so cute and fluffy Jim. He is having a huge flush already!

Beautiful rose and very nice foliage.

Lovely Jim, just lovely. Is it a little more purple than it shows or not ? I'm thinking it would look killer with either of your Easy blooms. That's one of my favorites to contrast.....orange and purple. I had a florist do the flowers for my FIL when he passed and chose those two colors as the mainstays. I'll have to see if I can find a pic of that. If you do boo-kets, try them together sometime.

Boxofrox,

Outta the Blue turns more blueish purple as it fades.
Depends on climate too.
Outta the blue is planted by orange Livin Easy.
I like purple & orange too...lol
Post a pic of your purple & orange...

See how the older blooms fade into a more blueish/purpleish color. Also, the camera does NOT capture the true color.

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Some colors are hard to capture. That looks dark pink to me. I have Midnight Blue which is definitely darker. The way the buds are clustered, I would bet they are related ;-)

Just to hard to capture true color on this one...lol

Looks very happy in your garden. The bloom color goes so well with leaves. Especially in the last picture. I really like the first picture - bloom is framed so nicely by the leaves.

Thanks for showing us Outta the Blue!!

Carol

Thank You for the comments ramblinrosez7b, Serena, Boxofrox, and Carol, I appreciate it!

Carol, hows the roses coming along up there in zone 3?