J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1945
Mary Copeland x N. poeticus ?
Falaise
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Folly x Hades
Limerick
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.
Part of Richardson’s “Race Horse Series.” Named after a very successful 1950’s UK racehorse.
Gay Time, 4 W-R, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1952
Photo #45304 Brenda Lyon, AustraliaGay Time, 4 W-R, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1952
Photo #45303 Brenda Lyon, AustraliaGay Time, 4 W-R, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1952
Photo #35892 Fentongollan Farms, EnglandGay Time, 4 W-R, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1952
Photo #31146 RHS Yearbook, EnglandGay Time, 4 W-R, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1952
Photo #936 Harold G. Cross, Australia