Perennials: favorite purple plant????, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
I have so many purple plants and love them all, but I guess the ones I love best are the unnamed, old-fashioned dark purple iris I was given for free -- almost 200 of them! They don't have a lot of scent, but are tough, indestructible, and best of all, they rebloom two or three times a year for me.

Other purple plants I love are: Tibouchina (we have both heteromalla and urvilleana), Plectranthus ciliatus, Cerinthe major (looks just like a purple shrimp!), Clematis 'Jackmanii', and our beautiful 'Intrigue' floribunda rose, which flowers profusely from March through October with little disease or pest problems.

Here's the iris. It grows in sun or shade: