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'Careless Love' rose Reviews & Comments
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Is not Careless Love a sport of Mrs. Charles Bell, rather than of Red Radiance? Careless Love often reverts to Mrs. Charles Bell; The Careless Love I had in CA nearly always had striped and solid pinky-beige blooms showing at the same time.
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I don't think so. Most references say it was a sport of 'Red Radiance'. Billy Teabag once sent me a photo of a bowl of 'Careless Love' blooms with all colours from a mostly plain 'Red Radiance'; to a striped one; then a bloom showing both the 'Mrs. Charles Bell' pink with sections of a striped 'Red Radiance colour; as well as the plain pink blooms of 'Mrs. Charles Bell'. All from the same bush of 'Careless Love'. An absolutely fascinating photo, but not mine so I cannot share it.
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Hi Patricia - I've just uploaded photos of what I hope you are referring to - and also a couple of photos taken at Rustons Roses seven years ago, also showing a wide variation in colour.
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Thank you Billy. Mariano from Argentina was asking. Mariano - both of my roses in a slightly cooler location are only ever pink with no stripe.
I've looked up my records and here are my 2002 notes from the possible 'Mrs. Charles J. Bell' plant in my last photo:
As for Careless Love.... I nearly had it for a while. I rang the Blackwood Inn and said the time was right for cuttings of their two old teas? but that I couldn’t make it, and would they mind if my husband picked cuttings of the two old roses by the creek. The man remembered me and actually took Rob up to the little old house next door (with the tyre gardens) and gave him cuttings of a “very old rose with speckles”. This was all just 2ks from Hawters old site and I had just seen a fantastic picture of ‘Rainbow’ that they had found in NZ and I got all excited about my ‘speckled’ rose. I managed to trace the old owner who now lives ‘out the back’ at her sister-in-law’s house in Bunbury and who has to take the phone out to the old luv. You can hear the sister-in-law huffing and puffing as she trudges grumbling out ‘the back’ with the hand-held phone. Old Mrs. Bovelle said she once had ‘Careless Love’ and my interest in the cuttings dropped markedly from then on. All the cuttings struck and I had nine pots of this rose, most of which the Bridgetown Garden Club ladies took when they visited. It turned out to be not ‘Careless Love’ but a very pretty pale apricot pink HT and I have actually planted it and quite like it now.
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You're welcome - thanks for remembering the photo - and for your story of the quest for the speckled rose. So sad that there is not more evidence of the existence of Hawters Nursery. The catalogues are tantalising.
Many moons ago, we called by Blackwood Inn on the way back to Perth from your place, and remember the man well. He was guarding those roses with his life and I suspect you are the only person he would have ever entrusted a cutting to.
(Thank you! for passing on "Blackwood Inn West" - the pale HT - It is such a strong and lovely rose.)
Our plant of 'Careless Love' came with a 'Candy Stripe' label. It was a gift from a friend who obtained it from a lovely woman in the district who budded a small range of favourite fragrant roses each year. I called in on her once and one of the memorable things she said was "I have riches beyond measure. I have a husband who loves his children."
Anyway, as our "Candy Stripe" grew and bloomed, it became obvious it was not correctly named. It is fortunate that the Radiance family have such distinctive foliage and bloom form, making it easy to see that this rose was a member of that family and the 'Careless Love' identity was confirmed when it was compared with named plants at several nurseries.
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Is there any evidence that can confirm whether ´Striped Radiance' (W. Vestal & Son, 1919) and 'Careless Love' (H. Conklin, 1955) are the same rose?
Thanks in advance!
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