Shrub Rose For Your Eyes Only

A very floriferous floribunda hybrid of Rosa persica with the characteristic persica dark eye, Rosa persica For Your Eyes Only won the prestigious Rose of the Year Award at the 2015 Hampton Court Flower Show. It’s a small, deciduous, repeat-flowering shrub rose with a compact, dome-shaped habit and glossy, deep green foliage. From midsummer to autumn, warm, deep pink tall buds unscroll to clusters of single, cupped salmon to apricot flowers with a deep pink eye and golden-yellow stamens; the colour seems to vary with the light, and the fragrance is light. Shrub rose For Your Eyes Only is a tough, very healthy rose with buds and flowers covering the plant all summer and early autumn, and tolerates drought once established. It’s ideal at the front of a sunny border or in soil-based compost in a large container. Easy to grow; just keep dead-heading!

Site: Tolerates exposure
Soil: Any well-drained soil
Position: Full sun
Season of interest: Midsummer to autumn
Hardiness: Very hardy
Height: 3’ (90cm) Spread: 3’ (90cm) in 2-5 years