Rose ‘For Your Eyes Only’ – 4.5L Plant
- Blooms all summer and into autumn
- Magnet to fruit-pollinating insects
- Great as a natural windbreak
Choose Rose For Your Eyes Only, a floribunda clustering rose to add to your garden or allotment. Planted by a wall or placed in pots in your garden is advisable. Alternatively plant rose plants together in a row to give you a flowering hedge. A pretty rose in the garden, a practical rose in the allotment.
For Your Eyes Only gives you flowers with five evenly-spaced petals; with bi-colours of pink/purple outer petals and deep-pink inner petals. Big buds open into flowers as early as June and flower displays last well into autumn.
Open and fragrant flowers attract honey bees and other beneficial pollinators which turn flowers to fruit – excellent news for the planting by the vegetable patch full of peas, beans and other fruiting vegetables.
We actually recommend you get hold of several plants and position 50-70cm (1 ½ – 2 ½ ft) apart so they grow into a flowering hedge in your allotment. This gives you lots of flowers and provides tender crops with a natural windbreak.
You receive your rose For Your Eyes Only plant in a well-rooted container, which we suggest you re-plant on a cool, dry day. Check the soil in your container for moisture and keep well-watered until planting.
When to plant and what to expect at different times of the year
You can plant hardy shrubs, trees and perennials at any time of the year avoiding the two extremes of heat and cold. During the summer months when it is hot and dry the need for watering becomes crucial to aid successful establishment and in the winter when the soil is frozen the plants will not be in active growth either above or below ground and risk getting cold damage. The same is true on the stage or growth you can expect your plants to be delivered in and this will be directly related to the time of year and the season.
When ordering through the year, here’s a summary of what to expect when receiving your plants:
Spring Months: Plants supplied in spring will be starting to show signs of active growth above and below ground.
Summer Months: Plants supplied in the late summer will be more advanced in size and flower stage
Autumn Months: In the autumn plants will be changing colour, showing signs of leaf colour breakdown and be preparing to shut down for winter.
Winter Months: Plants ordered and supplied during the winter months will be dormant and therefore may not be showing growth above the soil level or consist of bare branches with no leaves or bare roots with no soil.
These are all perfectly normal and natural for these types of plants growing in the northern hemisphere. All will still have a very healthy root system that can be planted when the weather is favourable by keeping the new soil level equal to the pot level and therefore not covering the crown of the plant at all. Planting during the autumn and winter months will allow for early establishment in the season and a bigger and better display throughout the main growing season. For more information on our plant sizes click here.
