Carefree Wonder™

This rose's location in the garden is SE 11.
  • Classification:  Shrub
  • Flower Color:  pink blend
  • Flower Size:  4 – 4.5 inches
  • Flower Form: cupped
  • Petal Count:  26 – 30
  • Fragrance:  slight
  • Repeat Bloomer:  yes
  • Foliage:  medium green, semi-glossy
  • Plant Height:  3 – 5 feet
  • Plant Width:  2 - 3 feet
  • Growth Habit:  bushy
  • Disease Resistant:  yes
  • Hybridizer:  Alain Meilland (France)
  • Registered:  1990
  • Parentage:  ‘Prairie Princess’ x ‘Eyepaint’ x ‘Nirvana’ x ‘Rustica’
  • ARS* Rating:  7.9 (a solid to very good rose)
    *American Rose Society Rating

Awards:
  • 1991 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’, ‘Carefree Wonder’ and ‘Carefree Marvel’, but none of these are from the Buck family tree. --- (Brenner and Scanniello, A Rose by Any Name, page 38)