Comments on: Another rose to know: ‘Carefree Beauty’

By: Carolflowerhill

Carolflowerhill — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:31:13 +0000

Oh Dee, what a lovely, lovely post! You had me right there with you walking out with the screen door slapping at your heels and the dragonflies and heat! Beautiful writing! Your garden is lush and beautiful … gorgeous rose bush!! Stunning photography. Thanks for all the links … I would have to check hardiness but could pass these tips along to my sister in Georgia if I cannot grow them. What a gift to have found your blog! Carol

By: Cindy, MCOK

Cindy, MCOK — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:13:02 +0000

Dee, I’m way behind in reading blogs and just now got to this post. Thanks for the link love! When I bought Carefree Beauty about 10 years ago, she was still known as Katy Road Pink in nurseries around Houston, even the Antique Rose Emporium. I remember Dr. Welch commenting that he’d been given some grief by folks from other areas who wanted to know why we were calling Carefree Beauty by another name! In my garden, she’s been moved 2 or 3 times and even divided during one of those moves. (There may have been 2 in the original pot.) She has indeed been relatively carefree and a definite beauty. She’s even bloomed in partial shade for me!

By: Monica the Garden Faerie

Monica the Garden Faerie — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:38:14 +0000

hi Dee, As much as I hate how long winters are in Michigan (let’s all it 5.5 months in terms of non-gardening time!), I do like snow. It’s just so drab and gray without it. Your summer garden does look lovely. I’m planting my first rose this year, ‘Golden Wings.’

By: Frances

Frances — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:08:28 +0000

Hi Dee, I hope your holidays were wonderful and refreshing, if cold. This rose is great, and good to know it is the same as Katy Road Pink, used so extensively at the Brenham gardens of ARE. We added Carefree Sunshine last year and hope it has the same vigor as the other carefree roses. Your descriptions of the heat of Oklahoma have me longing for it, and humming a little tune too, something about wind and a plain.
Frances

Frances, I love Carefree Sunshine! Mine likes to throw long, wild canes, but I think it’s all the nitrogen in that newer bed. It had “rich mix” soil originally. Come on west to Oklahoma, and we’ll have some iced tea with mint from the garden.~~Dee

By: Sweet Bay

Sweet Bay — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:57:06 +0000

Very beautiful images! What is the purplish flower in the second photo — is that a rose? It looks wonderful with Carefree Beauty.

In the second photo? That’s a shrub. Spirea x bumulda ‘Anthony Waterer’ which is one of my favorites. There is also a brighter variety called ‘Neon Flash.’~~Dee

By: Shari

Shari — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:49:40 +0000

Thanks for the warm-up, at least in imagination. I love pink roses. This might be a great one to try.

Shari, it truly is a great rose. Easy care which is what I’m all about these days.~~Dee

By: Kathy from Cold Climate Gardening

Kathy from Cold Climate Gardening — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:10:09 +0000

A good blog post to beat cabin fever. I grow a different Griffith Buck rose called ‘Wanderin’ Wind.’

Kathy, WW is one I’ve never tried.~~Dee

By: Bren

Bren — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:23:05 +0000

oh no… it is way to early for a midwest girly to be tired of the snow and cold! WE WILL SURVIVE my friend. Every day I am blogging with hopes of keeping my ‘green sisters’ warm till the spring arrives in our neck of the woods. LOVELY photos of the rose! YOU always inspire me!

Thank Bren. I think I’m a southern girl at heart, or at least my bones are southern.~~Dee

By: CurtissAnn

CurtissAnn — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:11:20 +0000

You make me want to run out and get one. And give me courage for really attacking that monster rosebush near the pool. I prefer roses with fragrance, but I’m finding so much with fragrance around here that maybe I don’t need to worry about that. 38 here, but sunny!
xxxooo

Honey, you should run out and get one. It’s one of the best.~~Dee

By: Rose

Rose — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:33:48 +0000

It’s one degree here at the moment, Dee, so your visions of summer are just what I needed! I was just reading an article in a magazine yesterday about easy to care for roses, and the “Carefree” series was mentioned in it. I’ve always been afraid to try most roses–I don’t have the patience for fussy plants–but I may add some this year. This one is a beauty! Thanks for the recommendation.

Hi Rose, one degree! Okay, I’ll quite complaining. I just wonder how many clothes one has to wear in order to stay warm at that temperature. It’s 20F here, and my feet are cold.~~Dee