Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Felix Crousse
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1888
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Early (week 2)
Flower Form: Full Double
Flower Color: Pink
Flower color description: Light rose-pink of the dull-opaque quality seen in pink chrysanthemums; broad, smooth guard petals; center incurved and silvered with light grayish pink.
Flower size: Very large
Needs support: Yes

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Plant Height: 36 inches (90 cm)
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Uses: Cut Flower
Pollinators: Various insects
Awards and Recognitions: RHS AGM
Child plants: 10 child plants

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Chinese Peony
  • Garden Peony
Also sold as:
  • Mons. Jules Elie

Photo Gallery
Location: Aurora, On
Date: 2016-06-16
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-07
This bloom has both an intensity of color and a height of crown p
Location: Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor
Date: 2018-06-02
A bloom that gives a sense of the incurved crown petals
Location: Huntsville, Al
Date: 2023-04-18
Location: Poland
Date: 2023-06-07
Bloom right after opening, gets bigger every day until it becomes
Location: Millinocket, Maine
Date: 2022-06-14
Mons. Jules Elie
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-06-02
Bud top view
Location:  In my garden. Poland.
Location: Millinocket, Maine
Date: 2023-06-19
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-07
One of two mature plants (Bed 4-2ef), showing a range of bloom co
Location: From my collection. Poland.
Date: 2021-06-17

Date: 2022-05-10
Location: Bea’s garden
Date: 2022-05-20

Date: c. 1928
photo from the 1928 catalog, Lee R. Bonnewitz, Van Wert, Ohio
Location:  In my garden. Poland.
Date: 2022-06-12
Location: Swanton Vermont
Date: 2022
Location: Bea's garden
Date: 2022
Location: Chailey Iris Garden, East Sussex, UK.
Date: 2022-06-11

Date: 2021-04-24
Location: Aquitania (France)
Date: 2012-05-31

Date: c. 1929
photo by Mrs A L Fowlkes from the 1929 catalog, Mohican Peony Gar
Location: Tacoma, WA
Date: 2023-05-29
Location: Aquitania (France)
Date: 2012-05-31

Photo Courtesy of Homestead Farms Nursery. Used with Permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Date: 2014
Peony Monsieur Jules Elie
Location: From my collection. Poland.
Date: 2018-05-27

Date: 2021-04-23
Location: Aquitania (France)
Date: 2012-05-31
Location: Aquitania (France)
Date: 2012-05-31

Date: 2007-01-30
Courtesy Peony Paradise
  • Uploaded by vic

Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms

Photo Courtesy of Crossview Gardens. Used with Permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy

Date: 2007-05-24
Photo courtesy of: Bob Gutowski
Location: Aquitania (France)
Date: 2012-05-31
Location: Aquitania (France)
Date: 2012-05-31

Photo Courtesy of Homestead Farms Nursery. Used with Permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Date: 2014
Peony Monsieur Jules Elie
Location: Botanical Garden of Moscow State University
Date: 2012-06-09
Photo courtesy of: Kor!An

Date: 2006-06-24
Photo courtesy of: Ulf Eliasson
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-10-27
Peony Monsieur Jules Elie
Comments:
  • Posted by frankrichards16 (Clinton, Michigan - Zone 5b) on Apr 22, 2018 10:27 AM concerning plant:
    "Paeonia 'Monsieur Jules Elie', (2-DB-PK) lactiflora cultivar Peony, (Crousse, 1888), USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Medium height, Large bomb double, light rose pink petals with a silvery sheen edge, smooth guards, rose fragrance, good cut, early bloomer , Michigan Bloom Month 5.

    A popular heirloom."
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