Rose Eyes for You - Floribunda
Eyes for You is a captivating Floribunda rose that creates an enchanting garden display with its distinctive bicolour blooms and romantic appeal. This charming variety produces clusters of eye-catching flowers featuring soft pink petals with deeper rose-pink centres and contrasting white or cream edges, creating a mesmerising striped effect that draws the eye from across the garden. Perfect for gardeners seeking something unique yet reliable, Eyes for You combines old-fashioned cottage garden charm with modern breeding excellence, delivering continuous colour and fragrance throughout the growing season.
Key Features
Flower Characteristics
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Medium-sized, semi-double blooms measuring 6-8cm across
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Distinctive bicolour pattern with pink centres and pale pink to white edges
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Subtle striping and picotee effect that varies with weather conditions
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Sweet, moderate fragrance with fresh rose and fruity notes
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Flowers produced in generous clusters of 5-10 blooms
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Excellent repeat flowering with consistent bicolour patterns
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Good weather resistance with petals that age gracefully
Plant Habit
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Compact, bushy growth reaching 70-90cm in height
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Well-balanced spread of approximately 60-75cm
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Medium green, semi-glossy foliage with good disease resistance
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Strong, well-branched stems supporting flower clusters effectively
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Tidy growth habit suitable for smaller gardens and containers
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Good cold hardiness with reliable winter survival
Growing Conditions
Ideal Location
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Full sun to light partial shade (minimum 6 hours direct sunlight)
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Good air circulation to enhance the bicolour effect and prevent disease
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Sheltered position to protect delicate petal markings from harsh weather
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Perfect for mixed borders, cottage gardens, and romantic garden themes
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Excellent for front-of-border positions where unique colouring can be appreciated
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Well-suited to container cultivation for patios and small spaces
Soil Requirements
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Well-drained, fertile soil with good organic content
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pH range of 6.0-7.0 (slightly acidic to neutral)
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Consistent moisture without waterlogging essential for best flower quality
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Benefits from annual organic matter incorporation
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Regular feeding enhances the intensity of the bicolour patterns
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Avoid very poor or extremely alkaline soils
Planting and Care
Planting Guidelines
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Plant bare root specimens from November through March
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Container-grown plants suitable for year-round planting
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Prepare planting hole enriched with well-rotted compost or manure
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Position graft union at soil level in temperate UK climates
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Space plants 50-70cm apart depending on desired garden effect
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Water thoroughly after planting and maintain consistent moisture
Ongoing Maintenance
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Regular watering during dry periods to maintain flower quality
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Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring as growth begins
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Monthly liquid feeding during growing season enhances bicolour intensity
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Annual mulching with organic matter maintains soil fertility
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Regular deadheading promotes continuous flowering and pattern development
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Light pruning in late winter maintains compact shape and encourages new growth
Seasonal Performance
Spring: New growth emerges with attractive foliage as distinctive bicolour buds begin to develop and show their unique markings.
Early Summer: Produces the first flush of captivating bicolour blooms with the most pronounced striping and picotee effects.
Mid-Summer: Continues flowering reliably with variations in the bicolour patterns influenced by temperature and light conditions.
Late Summer: Maintains good flowering performance with often more subtle colour variations as temperatures fluctuate.
Autumn: Produces some of the most interesting colour combinations as cooler weather intensifies the contrast between light and dark areas.
Winter: Shows good cold tolerance and benefits from light protection in exposed locations.
Unique Bicolour Characteristics
What makes Eyes for You truly special is its remarkable ability to produce flowers with varying bicolour patterns throughout the season. Cool weather tends to intensify the contrast between the pink centres and pale edges, whilst warmer conditions may produce more subtle variations. This ever-changing display means the rose presents different personalities throughout the growing season, keeping the garden interesting and unpredictable.
Garden Design Applications
The distinctive bicolour blooms of Eyes for You make it an excellent choice for creating focal points in mixed plantings. The unique colouring works beautifully in cottage garden settings where its romantic appeal fits perfectly with traditional planting schemes. Use in groups of three or five for maximum impact, or as specimen plants where the individual flower beauty can be fully appreciated. The compact habit makes it ideal for smaller gardens where space is at a premium.
Cottage Garden Romance
Eyes for You embodies the romantic spirit of traditional English cottage gardens with its soft colouring and charming bicolour patterns. The gentle colour variations and sweet fragrance create an atmosphere of nostalgic charm that pairs beautifully with other cottage garden favourites like lavender, catmint, and sweet peas. The unpredictable nature of the colour patterns adds to the informal, naturalistic appeal that defines cottage garden style.
Companion Planting Excellence
The soft pink and white tones of Eyes for You create beautiful harmonies with a wide range of companion plants. Silver-leaved perennials like lamb's ear and artemisia enhance the delicate colouring, whilst purple flowers such as lavender and salvia provide gentle contrasts. White flowers complement the pale edges beautifully, and cream or pale yellow companions create subtle, sophisticated combinations. Soft blue flowers like catmint or campanula add cool tones that highlight the warm pink centres.
Weather and Light Influences
One of the most fascinating aspects of Eyes for You is how environmental conditions affect its appearance. Morning light reveals the subtle colour variations, whilst strong afternoon sun may fade the contrasts slightly. Cool, moist conditions tend to produce the most dramatic bicolour effects, whilst hot, dry weather creates softer, more blended tones. This responsiveness to conditions makes each flowering period unique and interesting.
Container Growing Success
The compact habit and continuous flowering make Eyes for You an excellent choice for container cultivation. Use substantial pots (minimum 40cm diameter) with quality compost, ensuring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture. The unique bicolour blooms are particularly effective in containers where they can be positioned for close viewing, allowing the intricate petal patterns to be fully appreciated.
Fragrance and Sensory Appeal
The sweet fragrance of Eyes for You adds another dimension to its garden appeal. The moderate but pleasant scent combines classic rose notes with subtle fruity undertones, creating a fragrance that complements rather than competes with the visual display. The scent is most noticeable during calm conditions and adds to the romantic, cottage garden atmosphere this variety creates.
Maintenance for Optimal Patterns
To achieve the best bicolour effects from Eyes for You, ensure consistent soil moisture and avoid extreme stress conditions. Regular feeding helps maintain the vigour needed to produce flowers with clear pattern definition, whilst protection from harsh winds preserves the delicate petal markings. Deadheading spent blooms promptly encourages rapid repeat flowering and maintains the display quality.
Photography and Garden Memories
Eyes for You is a photographer's delight, with each flower offering unique patterns that create memorable images. The bicolour effects provide natural focal points in garden photography, whilst the romantic appeal makes it perfect for creating garden scenes that capture the essence of English garden charm. The ever-changing patterns ensure that no two photographs are ever quite the same.
Eyes for You offers gardeners the opportunity to grow something truly distinctive whilst enjoying reliable garden performance. Its combination of unique beauty, romantic appeal, and practical garden virtues makes it an excellent choice for those seeking to create memorable garden displays that evolve and surprise throughout the growing season.
Reasons to Buy Roses from Jacksons Nurseries
(1) ‘Excellent’ on Trustpilot
Buy with confidence from the only online rose grower rated ‘Excellent’ 4.9* on Trustpilot. We have been a trusted supplier of roses for 3 generations. We take pride in growing our own roses in the field before potting them up, allowing for meticulous quality control to sale.
(2) Best Prices Guaranteed – Direct from the Grower
Save £££s by buying direct from a grower you can trust. We’ve already price checked all of our roses against competitors so you don’t have to. We are so confident we offer the best value, if you find a rose of the same type and grade elsewhere, we’ll beat it by 10%.
(3) 12 Month Plants Guarantee
We offer a 12 month guarantee on every plant that you buy from us that we have classified as Fully Hardy. If a plant you've bought from us fails in the first year, we will either replace it or refund you. See our satisfaction guarantee page for more details and conditions.
(4) Third generation family-owned nursery specialising in roses
Jackson’s Nurseries is a 3rd generation family owned business which has been growing roses for over 60 years. Roses have always been our specialty, as you can see from the colourful array of blooms in the background to the old family photo below. Today, we offer over 200 different varieties of floribundas, hybrid teas, patio, shrub and David Austin roses. Our roses are initially grown in the field before being potted up for website dispatch.
(5) Grown at altitude to produce strong, healthy plants
Our North Staffordshire nursery is situated at 250 metres above sea level, producing strong, hardy plants that will thrive in your garden. Our nursery sits on clay, so you can be sure our roses can handle heavy soil too.
(6) Help & Advice and Aftercare
We are help to help you with any help and advice you need in choosing, planting and growing your roses before, during and after your purchase from us. The help and advice section of our website has extensive information, see below some examples of articles you may find useful:
- Different types of roses and what they each mean
- Guide to climbing roses
- Guide to floribunda roses
- Guide to hybrid tea roses
- How to plant a climbing rose
- How to grow hybrid tea roses
How our roses are supplied through the seasons
All our roses are cultivated in an open field and are carefully dug up when the weather is optimal, typically in October or November. While other nurseries supply roses bare root, once our field-grown roses have been potted up we supply them freshly potted. This better protects the roots and helps keep them moist in transit, ensuring your roses arrive as healthy as when they left our nursery. So don’t be alarmed if the compost comes away from the roots when you remove them from the pot.
The roses can remain in their pots over the winter, as long as they are properly watered and fed, but it's best to plant them out as soon as possible. If you do plant them straight away make sure the planting mix is prepared first, hold the root close to the top of the hole as you tip the pot upside down and try to keep as much compost as possible from falling away. They will already be pruned, so no additional pruning is needed except for trimming any dead tips. Regular pruning can start in late winter, the year after planting.
Rose Types
Hybrid Tea Roses (HT)
Hybrid Tea roses are probably the most popular group of roses, available in both bush and standard form they have long flower stems and shapely blooms. Blooms are typically medium to large in size, with many petals which form a distinct central cone.
Floribunda Roses (FL)
Floribunda roses bears its flowers in clusters or trusses, with several blooms open at time in each truss. A popular choice the Floribunda rose group is unrivalled for colour, reliability and longevity as a bedding display however the flower form in generally inferior to the Hybrid Tea.
Patio Roses (PATIO)
Patio roses were introduced in the 1980’s and the group now contains several popular varieties. Generally low-growing roses that were once grouped with the Floribuna group but have now been put in their own group of compact versions. Usually growing about 50cm high they make excellent plants for patio containers or at the front of borders.
Climbing Roses (CLM)
Climbing roses as the name suggests are the perfect choice for covering a wall or screen. Often grouped together with Ramblers, Climbers tend to have stiffer stems, larger flowers but smaller trusses than Ramblers.
Rambling Roses (RAM)
Rambling roses are often grouped with Climbing Roses but the ramblers tend to have a more pliable stems that can be used to run along the soil to use as groundcover or can be used to make weeping standards.
Miniature Roses (MINI)
Miniature roses have increased in popularity in recent years due to their versatility, even grown indoors as temporary pot plants that grow to a maximum height of 40cm. An ideal choice for planting in tubs, edging beds and rockeries.
English Roses (ENG)
Often referred to as Austin or David Austin Roses, English roses are hybrids of old English roses and more modern varieties bread by David Austin to provide the best of both, mixing old rose shapes and scents with more modern colour range, compact habits and repeat flowering.
Planting Advice
Roses like a generous root space, so dig a deep hole approximately twice as wide as the current root system, preferably adding composted organic matter to the soil. Never plant into frozen soil – in winter, await a frost-free period. Carefully remove the pot and gently tease the roots apart to spread them around the hole. Position the plant so that the ‘bud point’ (the place where the shoots emerge from, where the cultivated rose was grafted onto the rootstock) is at soil level. Replace the soil, firming it down gently, then water copiously. Ideally, a general purpose fertiliser should be applied to the surrounding soil as a top dressing. We also highly recommend the use of Rose Rootgrow, which provides a friendly fungus that prevents ‘rose replant syndrome’.
Buying our Roses
Pot Size
Most of our roses are supplied in a 4 litre pot although this may vary slightly depending on rose variety. If the size of pot differes significatly from 4 litres then we will make this clear somewhere on the product page.
Seasonality
Our roses are grown outdoors and as such are subject to seasonal changes. As we sell potted stock throughout the year your rose may not arrive and look like you expect it to. If you are uncertain how your rose will arrive (especially if buying for a gift) then we suggest you contact us prior to making a purchase.
Freshly Potted
Each year a new batch of roses is potted up ready for the following season. Once potted (usually November/December time) they go on sale as 'Freshly Potted'. If you purchase a freshly potted rose and plant it soon after you will find that when removing the rose from the pot there will be a lot of loose soil as the roots will not have had time to grow and bind the compost.
Pruned/Cut Back
In autumn the majority of our roses have finished flowering and begin to look untidy, at this point we prune them quite hard in preparation for the following season. We continue to sell roses throughout the year, when a rose has been pruned in such a way we will identify it has being so. If you are not sure what to expect then please ask prior to making a purchase. Some garden centres/supermarkets sell stock that has been grown abroad or in poly-tunnels so they look 'picture perfect' out of season, while this is ideal for a gift they are short lived once planted.
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