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'Eyes on Me' rose Reviews & Comments
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Consistent yearly size, as a grafted plant in the Pacific NW, has been about 4.5' T x 3.5'W. It makes a large everblooming orb. Kind of like Bonica. Way bigger than I expected, but I love the rose, and so do visitors. Its a very happy rose.
Edit: Much taller at advanced maturation.
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Very useful as usual, Michael, especially for me due to our shared climate.
I confess that I am fond of singles anyway, but I think that they are inherently much better vehicles for showing off contrasting eyes than roses with more petals. That holds for this rose versus Bullseye and the Eyeconics, for example, but it also holds for pale eyes, such as in Cocktail, Hoot Owl, Crazy Dottie, and many of the Meidiland roses.
I was very interested in this rose when I was putting in a lot of roses at a previous house several years ago, but I couldn't find a source, and now I am in the same boat at a new house. Does anyone know a U.S source for this rose, preferably own root? It would have to be mail order unless in western OR or WA.
Also, has anyone grown the similar but considerably newer rose For Your Eyes Only, also by Chris Warner?
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Oddly enough, this one can be trained into a climber in our climate! I whack mine back every year to 4". The canes are very pliable.
Portland Rose finder says nada for it locally. Portland Nursery used to carry it, but it seems they're not doing CR roses this year. CR could potentially have it in Lowes or HD this summer, but you never know what will show up. Regans is already done for the year, but they were selling it via CR. Maybe you could call CR and see who online may distribute it.
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Any idea how tall it would get as a climber? How do the flexible canes work as a shrub - just keep piling up on top of one another?
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The canes are super flexible. When I prune it to 4" every January, it reaches to my nose by november. I'm 6'3". That is a mature plant.
It has continuous growing tips, which would lend quite well to training. Just like it's parent, Summer Wine, but not quite as big. One would still have to prune any new shoots trying to grow wide at the base, however. But its not too much work, considering it doesn't need sprayed here.
The only caveat, other than side branches for that idea, I think, is that it has hooked prickles. So no at planting it somewhere near faces and eyes, if one was to train it.
Some Austins are grown like this, as well. I know Graham Thomas is a prime example, but it defoliates from BS here. Macy's Pride, as well.
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Is the roughly 6' that you describe if you take the longest flexible canes and hold them vertical? So 6' as a climber if you pruned it pretty much to the ground before growth starts each year? Or is it an updated height as a shrub, rather than the 4.5' T x 3.5'W that you posted, in which case what width are you seeing now? I very much want to grow this, and I'm trying to figure out where and how. Thanks in advance!
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Same width, but touching the ground as those LONG canes arch.
It really became a beast...
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Certified Roses has it renamed as Raspberry Kiss. See, http://certifiedroses.hortmp.com/Plant.aspx?code=CR217
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21 JAN 13 by
 jedmar
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Thank you, synonym added!
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This rose is currently stocked at the Lowe's big box stores right now. Got one today. Ten bucks.
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Thanks for the tip. So did I.
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It is listed as a floribunda, but this is an extremely beautiful and ever-blooming shrub The only thing about it being floribunda are the 2.5" blooms. The rest is lax, spreading, and mounding.
2016: It is now a full-blown shrub type. About 4'W x 4'T. Everblooming. It still does bloom close to the ground, but also at torso level.
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