Gay Time
Classification:
4 W-R[ Double ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Registered:
Yes, before 1952
Seed Parent: 
Falaise 4 W-O 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1945
Mary Copeland x N. poeticus ?
Falaise
Pollen Parent: 
Limerick 3 W-R 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Folly x Hades
Limerick
Chromosomes:
28
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
53 times as seed, 7 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. 108 mm wide; perianth and other petaloid segments in three whorls, broadly ovate, blunt or squarish at apex, creamy white, smooth, overlapping half; the outer whorl prominently mucronate, a little inflexed, with midrib showing; the inner whorls only very slightly mucronate; the second whorl a little shorter than the outer and more strongly inflexed; the center whorl shorter still, strongly inflexed, crumpled and with margins incurling; corona segments very short, tightly frilled and clustered among the petaloid segments at center, or more loosely frilled and interspersed among the surrounding whorls, orange-red.

Origin of Name

Part of Richardson’s “Race Horse Series.” Named after a very successful 1950’s UK racehorse.