This is still relatively new to me, and it’s proving itself to be amazing! VERY healthy, very productive, very fragrant and wonderful colors. This is the first real flush of flower this year, though there have been the odd flower here and there for the past two months. It’s cloudy, cool and damp today after day before yesterday’s rain, so it shows quite a bit more “blue” than it usually does in heat. So far, I LOVE this rose!
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To me, that looks a whole lot bluer than the genetically engineered ‘blue’ roses. Nice pictures.
Thanks, Jackie, it’s a lot “bluer” to me, too. This is where Eyes for You got the great foliage and blue tints to the flowers.
In my location (aka BS hell !!), in some seasons when conditions are optimal for fungal diseases BFY will mildew a little bit, and the BS resistance I would place as average-to-good.
Here it grows as a VERY TALL floribunda-type rose.
I have been observing public plantings of BFY for quite a few years now (there are a few near to me planted outside a local bowling club).
The color is very unstable, it must have a ton of red/pink in its line of breeding looking at the unopened buds, and you get to see everything on it from bleached near-white to pink to mauve and greys, depending on WATEVA!!!
This is prolly where Eyes For You (its kid) also got its highly changing color (from yellows at the unopened bud stage, to bleached white/mauve as a fully opened flower).
Also, the time between flushes for BFY in my climate can be annoyingly LONG some parts of the year, however the compensation there is that during a flush, there are myriad blooms to boot!
Judging from the amount of OP hips those bushes generate locally, to steal a catch phrase…you guessed it…â€she a ho†!
Kim, any OP seedling feedback on this one, yet?
It gave me pink seedlings when used as pollen ;(
Not yet, George, but there are quite a few planted with it from 2011. I believe there are a few coming up from Blue for You and the Clinophylla X Bracteata hybrid. It’s dark and wet out now, so I have to wait until the mud dries to look.
Hi Michael, lots of pink is exactly what I guessed it might pass on predominantly, judging by those flower bud colors (not that there is any science behind my prediction!).
Hmmmmm…
Comparing BFY to its kid EFY, the BS resistance of EFY in my location is appallingly poor, nowhere near as good as its mom.
In my location, EFY can suffer well over 50% defoliation due to BS, the BS lesions can also involve some receptacles and stems below receptacles!!!.. the plant then madly attempts to refoliate so it can grow out.
:O(
An afterthought…thinking back now, that crazy vigorous non-blooming OP seedling out of EFY I grew and culled with the fab and healthy bronze foliage, sure must have been a hybrid of EFY x some healthy daddy rose nearby, and not a selfing!!!
I guess I’ve been fortunate so far… Evidently, the strains of BS we have here aren’t issues for BFY or EFY. Both are spotless.
Fair enough.
Do you now grow EFY, Kim?
Yes.
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Hey Kim, did Mr Moore share any thoughts with you on BFY…ummmm… was BFY around in the USA during his time?
It wasn’t within his world. I seriously doubt he ever knew of its existence. He never learned how to turn on a computer. He wrote, I think he COULD type, but preferred to write. Answering machines were a bit beyond him, even taking his hearing loss into consideration. They required more than turning on the television, oven or micro wave. I think he would have enjoyed it. I know he would have “whooped” had he seen Jim’s Eyeconics. I doubt if he would have paid a lot of attention to BFY but he would have seriously enjoyed Eyes for You.
Thanks for taking the time to elaborate on the man, Kim.
I just got back from some errands, and thought to take a camera past that BFY group planting as I was planning to walk past it on the way back home.
So, here are these pix of the local BFY taken this afternoon (mid-autumn):
They usually get a BIG CHOP every summer and every winter by the gardener who works that particular establishment.
:O(
Notice their height even despite this regular HARD chomping:
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The PRICKERS (which I LOATHE!!!), currently these are in between flushes of bloom:
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Female fertility galore:
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Don’t ge me wrong, I actually like something about BFY, but can’t quite explain at this point in time, what that something actually is…
o_O
Hi Kim,
That rose is just beautiful. Maybe I am missing something but what is the cross or is that Blue for You.?
Jim
Hi Jim, George’s photos are of Blue For You. Eyes for You is bred from Blue For You.
Don’t you guys EVER get any sleep!!
Good night (1am here).
Sure I sleep George, but usually only while driving…
Jim, I’m sorry, I didn’t fully explain. The mauve flower photos are Blue for You. The plant photos George posted are Blue for You, also.
Which reminds me…When Ralph was about ninety or so, a friend and I had gone up to visit. Ralph had an old Kingswood Estate Chevy wagon and he decided he was taking Carolyn, Burling, Jerri and I out to lunch, so we all piled in to the car. I sat behind Ralph with two of the others beside me in the back seat. A cartoon had recently gone around work, which I had shared with my friend. As we got into the car, we looked at each other and simultaneously thought of that cartoon, getting rather hysterical.
"When I die, I want to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather did.
Not screaming like the other passengers in his car!"
