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I have grown this rose for three years now and I love it. The blooms are always strikingly beautiful and fragrant. Dark reddish purple blooms with loads of petals appear in clusters on this upright bush which can easly attain 6 or 7 feet tall in a season after having been pruned down to 3 feet.
This is a rose that needs larger distribution! It is truly a great one, and I don't say that lightly.
I am here rooting for this rose. I am curious as to its ancestry and who hybridized it.
Bob Bauer
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I am a long-time Boeing employee (41 years) and I recently found information on a Boeing history site about the 777 Rose which was named after the Boeing 777 airplane. I'm planning my garden for our retirement home, and I am trying to find a nursery who carries this rose. You have the most recent posting, so I was hoping you would share information on where you bought your plant.
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#2 of 3 posted
14 JUN 08 by
 jedmar
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If you check the 'Buy From' tab, you will see which nursery supplies '777'.
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14 JUN 08 by
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I am the person who revived the 777 roses at Boeing in Everett. THe grower had discontinued the 777 rose production due to lack of interest. I am trying to get them to revive the production. If you still have an interest, please contact me at Boeing. D. Glen Jackson
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I'm glad that this is finally in the USA. I initially thought it was a Carruth rose, since he has been doing a lot with purple roses and it was introduced by Weeks. Interesting that it is not.
I spotted this rose in the nursery from about 100 feet away in full bloom. It is truly a one of a kind unique color. Grayish purple. Nothing else like it except maybe for a faded Cardinal Richelieu.
I'm going to talk this one up to anybody I see. It is a bloom machine and is an amazing color! Fragrant too.
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Yes, I can confirm that!! :-))
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Thanks Bob ! Feedback like this is what really makes HMF useful.
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#3 of 7 posted
26 FEB 08 by
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Bob, what zone are you in? I live in Mount Airy, Maryland, and I'm wondering if this rose would thrive here. It gets beastly hot here in the summer, well into the 90's. I love the color of this rose. It's really something special. Any thoughts?
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Hi, Sherri. I know the question was for Bob ... but just to say that we get hot summers too, in the mid 90's, and Rhapsody in Blue carries on flowering through the heat. As long as it gets its weekly water.
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27 FEB 08 by
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Thank you, Judith, for your prompt reply. Here I go with another question. It says that this rose gets to be six/six and a half feet tall here on helpmefind.com. Is that about right? And how wide does it get? I'm new to growing roses, or anything for that matter, and I only have about a quarter of an acre to work with, so I want to make the most of my space. The color of this rose is so exceptional, I think I can find a place for it somewhere.
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Sorry, Sherri, I've just come across your question by chance ... I didn't receive any notification ... but I think they've been doing a bit of work on the website.
My two are not very old, and I prune my roses fairly hard. They do grow taller than a lot of my other rosebushes, but I don't get the feeling they're going to take up a lot of space. However, nothing to do with your question, I bought one for a friend who put hers in the shade and it wasn't happy at all, so do put yours in the sun! And do get one!!! I love mine!
P.S.: I've just come back to say that, out of curiosity, I have just had a look at all the photos here of Rhapsody in Blue. No one's is very large ... One thing that is striking, every rosebush has the same wonderfully healthy foliage ... whatever country it is grown in. And all the blooms have that tell-tale white stripe ... Oh, roll on Spring and the first roses!!!
Back again!! One of mine came from Harkness UK - height according to them 1m25, width 80cm ...( i.e. H 50" - W 30"), the other came from a French producer, who say H 80-100cm W 60-80cm (H 30-40" W 24-30"). I think here on the website they're a little bit generous with H 6'7", but all that depends on how they are grown, pruned, etc... Mine grow to about 40", width 25", but, as I mentioned, they're only a couple of years old.
Right!! I shan't come back again ... tonight!!!
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#7 of 7 posted
1 MAR 08 by
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Thank you again, Judith. Very detailed, useful information. And, yes, bring on Spring!
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I can second the comment that this rose needs winter protection. I live in zone 6b and I grew this rose in a large 25 inch diameter pot. I pushed it together next to a wooden fence with a group of about 10 other Austins in large pots and it failed to survive the winter. The canes turned black by midwinter. The other Austins were not affected.
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A very beautiful bloom. Is winter hardy in zone 6.
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