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'Eyes on Me' rose Reviews & Comments
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I bought Raspberry Kiss at Lowe's/HD abt 3 yrs ago; it's planted on a relatively remote part of the property, so has received minimal care. Beyond the usually cited specs, however, it has grown overtop a 7 foot high trellis and has spread laterally ~15 feet. The thorns are vicious but the reward is an outrageous display, year-round, of blossoms, regardless of watering or fertilizer. I am located on the Kona coast of the Big Island of Hawai'i. Will post pic when next i'm near the plant.
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18 NOV 20 by
Cradoc
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This is my first Hulthemia hybrid, bought in 2018. The foliage is simply luscious. I think I'd grow it for this alone but the flowers are quite charming. The scent reminds me of wild roses with a little added spice. I've since bought another three varieties. Oh dear! Just what I needed - another collection.
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13 AUG 19 by
 Plazbo
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So like mentioned in previous comments by others, it produces a lot of hips and seed...germination for me however has been extremely poor (at best 5% territory).
I'll need to check when flowering starts up again if it's pollen is uniform or not. I can't rule out this rose being triploid which may explain it's high rate of dud seed. Given the similar lineage with Blue For You which is triploid and the pollen parent of this rose could easily be a dip or trip from the known info.
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Parentage listed per Certified Roses.
Summer Wine x [(Tigris x Baby Love) x Scrivbell]
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Thank you !
Smiles,
Lyn
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Did you get yours yet? I put mine is a massive ceramic pot. I hope it trails down and keeps the same habit I saw in the test gardens...
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HI Michael, yes, I got it, and it's already nearly gotten me a number of times.
The prickles are vicious.
As you've mentioned, it's a recumbent grower and gets quite wide, much wider than stated.
It limped through the Summer but now it's going crazy with the cooler weather.
The foliage is beautiful.
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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.
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I noted the hips. I'll be curious to hear how the seed germinates. I know how I will use it if I decide to play with it.
I'm not crazy about the growth habit. It's eats up a lot of space and at a height where it can catch your ankles as you walk by.
I've heard health is exemplary.
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Definitely.
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.
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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.
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Kim, I had mine in shade all Summer and it limped along but did not defoliate.
Next season will tell the tale for me.
'Summerwine' hated it here and this one may follow suit.
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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.
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I just removed this rose from its 4.5' T x 2.5'W ceramic pot, and in one year, it set out a tap root through the bottom and 2' into the ground. LOL!
I put it into the ground, as I am only going to ever do geraniums, lilies, and petunias in pots from now on, as they are heat lovers.
With all of that known, this rose might be best own-root. This grafted plant is quite vigorous.
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#11 of 11 posted
7 APR 18 by
Plazbo
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(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?
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