Basye's Purple

The weather this week is practically perfect ... sunny, 80 degrees, light breeze .... my, my my.  My energy level is high, and I am motivated to see how much pruning I can get done.  While working in the Rugosa section of the Rose Field, I made a weird discovery.

(Photo from last year.)

'Basye's Purple' is a rose that I look forward to every year.  It has reddish-brown bark, blue-green foliage, and beautiful velvety maroon-purple flowers.  As I was cutting off some small rogue canes, I noticed that 'Basye's Purple' has purple wood, too.

(Photo from this morning.)

 

On an unrelated subject ... how about those thorns?