Moonrise
Flowers are held on straight stems just above the foliage but are not especially abundant. Sidebuds extend the period of bloom. Very attractive in bloom and is being evaluated for an Award of Landscape Merit. However, it is best loved by hybridizers because it is fertile. ‘Moonrise’ is in the lineage of ‘Ace of Hearts’ (Hollingsworth, 2002), ‘Salmon Dream’ (Reath, 1979), ‘Lemon Chiffon’ (Reath, 1981), ‘Pastelelegance’ (Seidl, 1989), ‘Pastelorama’ (Seidl/Bremer, 2013), ‘Pink Bubbles’ (Hollingsworth/Steininger, 2015), ‘Sunny Boy’ (Laning, 1985) and many more seedlings being produced by hybridizers today.
| Cultivar: | Moonrise |
| Year: | 1949 |
| Seedling No: | 15785. Page 22r of Saunders’ Notebook I |
| Parentage: | 7B: F2 of (lactiflora X “lobata of Perry”) Notebook doesn’t specify exact parentage — elsewhere stated lactiflora ‘Adolphe Rousseau’ |
| Flower: | Color: | ivory |
| Form: | single, two rows of petals, cup shaped | |
| Blooms: | Week 5 | |
| Carpels: | 3, very light cream, woolly | |
| Stigmas: | white | |
| Disc: | white | |
| Stamens: | filaments very light yellow | |
| Plant: | Habit: | upright bush |
| Foliage color: | medium green | |
| Foliage form: | fairly narrow pointed leaves, not lobed | |
| Height: | 38″ in 2021 | |
| Recommendation: | Highly recommended |
| Availability: | Several specialty nurseries |
