..what a pretty rose... and the colour - lilac is how it's described by a supplier here - is captured perfectly...

It will get a bit bluer than this -- but I like it a great deal at just this point.

Love it!!!

I love the look of these. Seems like I heard though that they perform best in drier climates? I don't remember, but something held me back from trying to get any if this type. I sure love seeing pictures of it though.

We USED to be dependably cool and humid, with almost no winter-freeze, and little real summer heat. Spring and summer mornings were usually cool, dank, and foggy. (In fact, the conditions we are enjoying this week.) Hot-and-Humid was unheard-of. If it was humid, it was chilly.

Our disease problems have been mildew and rust. Blackspot was almost never seen.

As our offshore currents are warming, we are getting many more very hot days (records are set, one after another) AND we are getting some very cold winter days. We have had only minimal rainfall for the past four years. We are becoming familiar with occasional Hot-Humid spells, pushed up by Hurricanes over Baja, CA.

We now see occasional outbreaks of Blackspot, but less mildew.

Which is to say that our climate is about as different from most of Texas as a climate can be -- and I cannot say that this rose is blackspot-proof. Maybe it is. I don't know.

It is everything proof for me, Jeri - astonishingly healthy and prolific (and blackspot is practically a given in 90% of roses by the fag end of summer)...but unfortunately, I am getting a bit fed up with the look of the wilted blooms - the shape deteriorates very quickly indeed...but I do realise that for most people, this is not an issue and my bias towards small single roses has made me a tad intolerant of floppy,roses. Its absolute health and vigour always stays my murdering hand (plus I am cheap).

Amid many which are proving themselves NOT to be BS resistant, Eyes for You and Blue for You (its parent) are both resisting BS, rust AND mildew. There were no issues with the foliage on either in Encino (zone 10) and there aren't any so far in cooler, damper, foggier Santa Maria (zone 9). A VERY seductive rose! One you can definitely smell, too!

Yes. I don't honestly think I've ever seen a rose with more perfect foliage.

If the other parent of "Eyes" was really CHEWtingle, you have to wonder what ITS parentage was!

Royal National Rose Society, The Rose

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Magazine (2009) Page(s) 15. Vol 103. part 1. Includes photo(s).

Bred by Peter James and introduced by Chris Warner. Chris rates this as an outstanding novelty. He says, 'I started work with the Persica hybrids in the early eighties when I purchased 'Tigris'. My hybrids, crossed with 'Baby Love', were a step forward in disease resistance on the earlier Harkness hybrids and one, 'Chewtiggle', won an award at St Albans. But they needed old wood to repeat and though 'Tiggle' did repeat it stopped flowering in September. 'Tiggle' proved a dead end. I fortunately had a small group to help me with my project on the understanding that anything of worth came to me first. Ronnie Rawlins from Fixby, Huddersfield joined later and received 'Tingle' rather than 'Tiggle'. Fate decreed that 'Tingle' produced two usable hybrids and from these real progress is now being made'.

'Eyes for You' has 4" flowers in trusses in a mauvy-lilac shade with a very large purple blotch at the centre of the flower. The impact of the flower colouring is very dramatic. The plant is short, bushy and free flowering. There is also an outstanding fragrance inherited from Blue for You.

From the References section on HMF. From this statement, it is easy to extrapolate that Bull's Eye and Eyes for You are very likely sister seedlings. From Tom Carruth, Week's tested both but couldn't get Eyes to produce sufficient Grade 1 plants, but Bull's Eye does. Eyes doesn't mildew, but Bull's Eye does, and it's the one which got released here.

It's a shame. This one is clearly going to grow well on its own roots. And if it stays compact it will be perfect for the place we have planted it (in front of a nice cast-iron cross, where our old Frodo rests). Maybe, it just didn't like being budded on Dr. Huey.
I prefer this coloring -- but I do see that the buds of Bulls Eye and the buds of Eyes for You are virtually identical.

My plant is quite young, but clean as a whistle. I had my first bloom the other day, and it really is a very pretty flower.

I couldn't detect a fragrance, though that tends to be a hit-or-miss thing with me... maybe I'll catch some perfume with the second bloom (should be opening soon).

Virginia

I have my three Blue for You, two Eyes for You and a seedling from Indian Love Call X Blue for You all together and the scent from them carries on the warm, moist air. It really is breath taking!

Perhaps it's just too hot to catch the fragrance? Just now it's 95F with a heat index of 109F, acc. to Weather Underground. It's good that I didn't check that before I went out to water the plants.

Now it's your turn to tell me how delightfully cool it is there, and how you almost wished you had a sweater on as you watered your plants this morning!

My 'Indian Love Call' is shaping up to be a really attractive plant, btw... Just a bit nibbled upon by the June bugs, but they really seem to prefer other roses, such as 'Enchantress', 'Clotilde S' and 'Cecile Brunner'... nom, nom, nom..

Virginia

Ouch! I'm sorry! But, I've done that and tired of it, which is why this move. It's warmed up to 65 with 87% humidity. No ma'am, I was out photographing things and observing seedlings in shorts and short sleeved shirt earlier when it was a few degrees cooler and quite a bit wetter. They call it "June Gloom" after the "May Gray", but I am honestly liking this overcast climate. I have doors and windows open so the breeze flows through, airing out the house and so the dogs can come and go as they wish. What they "wish", though, is for me to go out with them, unless the neighbors' dogs sound off, then they're off like a shot! Scents express themselves quite nicely when it's like this. Kim

In my parts summers are average 37c.

I have 3 eyes for you. Two in ground one in pot. ( doing great in pot ) They are most resistant roses of my entire collection.

Very fast repeat. 3 to 5 flowers per stem and as the petals fade the eye become prettier.

It has taken a rest here to set hips. This opened today.

They are all beautiful!