carefree beauty™ hot

truly a carefree beauty™, this shrub rose forms nicely fragrant, large 5” double blooms with 16-20 petals of light rose and bengal pink. the blooms are followed by large, attractive, round orange hips. this continual blooming plant is bushy and well foliaged with leathery dark green leaves. carefree beauty™ has excellent resistance to both black spot and mildew. she is winter hardy in the midwest without protection. 

• type: hardy

• color: light pink

• fragrance: moderately fragrant

• hardiness zone: 4 – 9

• size: 4′ – 5′ x 4′ – 5′

• rebloom: continual blooming

• bloom type: double | flat

• year: 1977

• breeder code: buc

• alternate names: audace, “katy road pink”