Carefree Spirit™

This rose's location in the garden is SE 05.
  • Classification:  Shrub
  • Flower Color:  red blend
  • Flower Size:  2.5 inches
  • Flower Form:  flat
  • Petal Count:  single
  • Fragrance:  slight
  • Repeat Bloomer:  yes
  • Foliage:  glossy
  • Plant Height: 5 feet
  • Plant Width:  3 feet
  • Growth Habit:  bushy, mounding growth
  • Disease Resistant:  very good particularly with respect to Black Spot
  • Hybridizer:  Meilland (France)
  • Registered: 2006
  • Parentage:  (‘Red Max Graf’ x ‘Pink Meidiland’ x seedling x ‘Immensee’)
  • ARS* Rating:  8.0 (a solid to very good rose)
    *American Rose Society Rating

Awards:
  •  2009 AARS (All-America Rose Selections) award

Notes:
  • A similarly named rose, ‘Carefree Beauty’, is a Griffith Buck rose that proved to be very disease resistant, producing an abundance of fragrant flowers on a hardy bush.  Piggybacking on the success of ‘Carefree Beauty’, other growers copied with ‘Carefree Spirit’, ‘Carefree Delight’, and ‘Carefree Marvel’, but none of these are from the Buck family tree. --- (Brenner and Scanniello, A Rose by Any Name, page 38)