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'Eyes for You ®' rose References
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'. Disease resistance is very good.
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