Great Scott!
Classification:
2 W-O[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1985
Registered:
Yes, 2000
Seed Parent: 
Kilworth 2 W-YOO 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
White Sentinel x Hades
Kilworth
Pollen Parent: 
Johann Strauss 2 W-O 
J.W.A. Lefeber, the Netherlands
Year Registered: 1968
Redmarley
Johann Strauss
Seedling Number:
80-41-1
Used as parent:
1 time as seed
Comments

Fl. forming a double triangle, 110 mm wide, facing up; perianth segments very broadly ovate, shouldered at base, spreading, with margins incurling, smooth and of heavy substance, with midrib showing, overlapping; the inner segments narrower; corona bowl-shaped, ribbed, orange, with occasional flecks of white at rim, mouth flared and wavy, with rim dentate and slightly flanged. Sunproof. Sweetly scented.

Origin of Name

Named with the quote ‘Great Scott!’ in mind when seeing this flower for the first time, and for Willard Scott the TV weatherman who played the clown Clarabelle in his earlier years.