Good Will


This is a very difficult plant to find and the first one I bought proved to be ‘Hope’, not ‘Good Will’. So glad to have the real thing! Petals are lightly fringed and the color is so cheery. Should be more widely grown. We all need some good will.
Cultivar: | Good Will |
Year: | 1942 |
Seedling No: | 4720. Page 160 of Saunders’ Notebook I |
Parentage: | 8A: ‘Otto Froebel’ X lactiflora ‘Marguerite Gerard’ |
Flower: | Color: | bright rose pink |
Form: | semi-double (Saunders called it “almost a double”), occasional petaloids | |
Blooms: | Week 5 | |
Carpels: | 6-7, light green, woolly | |
Stigmas: | bright rose pink (self) | |
Disc: | white | |
Stamens: | filaments light yellow | |
Plant: | Habit: | upright |
Foliage color: | light green | |
Foliage form: | narrow leaves, terminal leaves lobed | |
Height: | 29″ in 2021 | |
Recommendation: | Highly recommended |
Availability: | Rare |
