Not your usual rose

I said to Mrs Oons, that's nice, what is it? She said, a rose. I said, oh, it's not, is it?

You see, I thought (apart from things like Rosa Rugosa) garden roses were all fluffy, plumptious things. And this is neither. In any event it's called 'For Your Eyes Only' and apparently it won Rose of the Year in some year or other. Anyway, it's ours now. Pleased I am, and it seems pretty happy too.