Data specific to Roses (Edit)
Bloom size: Medium: 2-3"
Bloom shape: Cupped
Petal count: full: 26-40 petals
Rose bloom color: Mauve and mauve blend
Extra Bloom Info: In large clusters, with ruffled petals
Rebloom: Good
Class: Grandiflora
Extra Color Info: Mauve, with silver reverse
Growth Habit: Medium-tall, 3-5 feet, bushy
Fragrance: Strong
Hybridizer & year: Tom Carruth, 2004
Awards: AARS: 2006

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Soil pH Preferences: Moderately acid (5.6 – 6.0)
Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Plant Height: 3-5 feet
Plant Spread: 2-3 feet
Leaves: Deciduous
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Mauve
Flower Time: Spring
Summer
Fall
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Cuttings: Tip
Miscellaneous: With thorns/spines/prickles/teeth
Parentage: ((International Herald Tribune x hybrid of Rosa soulieana) x (Sweet Chariot x Blue Nile)) x (Blueberry Hill x Stephens' Big Purple)
Child plants: 7 child plants

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Alternative cultivar names:
  • 'Wild Blue Yonder'
  • 'WEKisoblip'
  • 'Blue Eden'

Common names
  • Rose

Photo Gallery
Location: World Peace Rose Garden, Capitol Park, Sacramento CA.
Date: 2023-09-02
Evermore lovely as it fades.
Location: My garden
Date: 2023-05-27
Love the white streak in the lower petal
Location: Near Napa Valley (Northern California)
Date: 2020-09-12
Location: in my garden
Date: 2017-05-23
Location: little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Date: 2024-06-23
Location: little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Date: 2023-08-19
Location: Coastal San Diego County 
Date: 2018-08-05
Location: Coastal San Diego County 
Date: 2018-08-05
Location: in my garden
Date: 2017-05-27
Location: My garden
Date: 2023-05-25
Location: My garden
Date: 2024-05-25
Location: SoCal
Location: Coastal San Diego County 
Date: 2018-08-05
Location: Coastal San Diego County 
Date: 2018-08-05
Uploaded by Beth_NorCal
Location: My garden
Location: My garden
Date: 2020-10-01
With a cucumber beetle
Location:  Hershey Gardens, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
Date: 2018-09-16
Location: in my garden
Date: 2017-05-27
Location: My garden
Date: 2024-05-25
Location: SoCal
Location: Palatine Roses in Niagara-on-the-Lake
Date: 2016-06-25
Location: Potomac MD
Date: 2019-06-01
Uploaded by zuzu
Uploaded by zuzu
Location:  Hershey Gardens, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
Date: 2018-09-16
Location: my garden
Date: 2016-11-10
Location: My garden
Uploaded by Mike
Location: SoCal
Location: SoCal
Location: little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Date: 2024-06-16

Date: 2009-10-15
Location: Chamblee's Nursery in Tyler, TX
Date: 2012-04-25
Uploaded by zuzu
Location: Birmingham botanical garden 
Date: 2015-10-23
Location: Ohio
Date: 2009-09-04
  • Uploaded by Val
Location: Denver Metro CO
Date: 2012-10-03
Location: Ohio
Date: 2009-09-04
  • Uploaded by Val

Date: 2015-05-21
Uploaded by zuzu

Date: 2009-10-15

Date: 2008-05-22
Location: San Jose Municipal Rose Garden
Date: 2008-05-22
Location: San Jose Municipal Rose Garden
Date: 2008-05-14
Location: My garden
Date: 2020-04-26
Location: San Jose Municipal Rose Garden
Date: 2008-05-14
Location: Rose Garden, Elizabeth Park, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Date: 2018-06-16
Uploaded by Skiekitty

San Jose Municipal Rose Garden, CA.
Uploaded by Calif_Sue

San Jose Municipal Rose Garden
Location: At a public garden
Date: 2007-09-26
Location: Rose Garden Center, Tyler, Texas
Date: 2014-05-03
  • Uploaded by jon
Location: Inez Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden
Date: April
credit: Captain-tucker
Location: Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden
credit: Kelvinsong
Comments:
  • Posted by Skiekitty (Denver Metro - Zone 5a) on Oct 17, 2011 9:07 PM concerning plant:
    I have tried WBY twice now, neither time seems to have survive my winters (CO Zone 5). Trying it one more time with a massive mother plant from Cliff (EuroDesert). Hoping that it survives. Love this rose.

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