Rosa 'Violet Carson' is a salmon-pink rose cultivar, an uncommon hybrid of the red hybrid tea 'Mme Léon Cuny' (Gaujard, 1955) and the orange floribunda 'Spartan' (Boerner, 1955), created by Samuel McGredy IV between 1963 and 1964.

[3] It was named after the English actress Violet Carson (1898–1983), who played Ena Sharples in the British soap opera Coronation Street.

[4] The dense semi-double flowers reach an average diameter of 8 centimetres (3.1 in), with up to 35 petals, and appear in loose clusters of 3 to 15 in flushes throughout the season.

They have a mild to strong, sweet musk fragrance and an elegant bloom form, with outer petals that bend decoratively outwards.

The young shoots are crimson with reddish purple new foliage that turns to a glossy slightly blue dark green.