Mine set like 30 hips. Its an insane seed parent! Its cup of hips is actually next in line for shelling and planting.
It had perfect health, non-stop blooms. I love this rose. The growth habit is weird. I cannot describe it well at all, lol.
It is to be expected than most things from Summer Wine have crazy thorns, lol. Its the difficult part about most Kordesii types. Sometimes Baby Love smooths things out, but not this time.
I know I used a lot of First Light pollen. Yes, I'm crazy. And the pollen was fertile, like I figured it would be. I know I used dreaming Spires. I cannot recall what else I had used. Its the only persica I own. I typically do not like them, but I loved this rose. I do not specifically care about the red eye or not, but I have noted new colors in persica types, especially the mauve, pink, and apricot tones blending. I like that. Foetida brought in new, unexpected color types, and I think persica is doing this, too.
This hated the heat here this summer. As soon as it settled in and remained HOT, the foliage all yellowed and eventually fell. The plant remained bare until cooler temps arrived. It appeared it wanted to be summer dormant, no matter how much water I provided. It went home to Santa Barbara this week with a friend. Hopefully, it will like her conditions better. I had high hopes for it. Unfortunately, it didn't share them.
Ironically, neither Eyes for You nor Blue for You (nor any of their seedlings) had foliage issues as Eyes on Me did. I used it for some crosses. It may be fortunate that a squirrel got many of them before I did, but there are a few seeds from it left. The foliage was quite pretty. I wasn't all that impressed by the blooms.
(Sydney Australia here, so 100F+ heat waves a lot of summer here)
Mine hasn't been phased by the heat, remained leafy, bloomed, etc. I got it bare root around august 17, the one branch from the bud union (pretty much everything in Australia is grafted) was dead and I didn't think the plant would make it as nothing happened for months, every other new plant was growing, this remained dead looking until around november then it exploded and grew through a few heat waves without any issue, it didn't get sad look like a lot of moderns do....possibly the rootstock used is the difference in experiences between us?
