Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Roy Klehm
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1981
Cultivar Group (Type): Herbaceous Hybrid
Season of bloom: Early (week 2)
Late Midseason (week 5)
Flower Form: Semi-Double
Flower Color: Coral
Flower color description: Rose-form, with layers of translucent coral petals, blended creamier with a yellow influence at their bases. Watermarks on backside of outermost petals. Centers with accents of yellow (stamens), cream (carpels) and pink (stigmata) poking through.
Flower size: Large
Needs support: No
Awards: Gold Medal: APS Gold Medal 2000
Award of Landscape Merit: 2009

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 36 inches
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Pollinators: Various insects
Awards and Recognitions: Other: APS Gold Medal 2000
Parentage: Charlie's White x Otto Froebel

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Garden Peony

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Date: 2022-03-25
Location: Near Napa Valley (Northern California)
Date: 2020-04-10
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2015-05-24
Location: Coon Rapids, MN home garden
Date: 2022-06-11
Location: Oxfordshire, England
Date: 2023-06-03
Opens quite dark then pales progressively, beautiful at all stage

Date: 2023-04-15
Pink Hawaiian Coral
Location: j c raulston arboretum, ncsu,  raleigh, north carolina
Date: april,  2021
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2015-05-30
"Paeonia x 'Pink Hawaiian Coral', 2015, [Peony] (2-SD-PK), pye-OH
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2015-05-30
"Paeonia x 'Pink Hawaiian Coral', 2015, [Peony] (2-SD-PK), pye-OH
Location: Poland
Date: 2023-06-04
This gorgeous flower stole my heart the moment I saw it.
Location: Mid-Missouri, USA
Date: 2020-04-28
First year plant with the bloom still opening
Location: Near Napa Valley (Northern California)
Date: 2020-04-12
Location: My garden, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: 2016-05-18
Fading
Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2019-06-27
Photo by soilsandup
Photo by LizinElizabeth
Photo by LizinElizabeth
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania USA
Date: 2018-05-18
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania 17565
Date: 2017-05-03

Date: 2022-03-26
Photo by Minyatur
Location: From my garden. Poland.
Location: Oxfordshire, England
Date: 2018-06-11
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania 17565
Date: 2017-05-03

Date: 2022-03-25
Location: My garden, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: 2016-05-18
Location: From my garden. Poland.
Date: 2019-03-17
Photo by NMay
Location: Ottawa
Date: June 22, 2022
More colour fade after 36 hours.
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: My garden, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: 2016-05-18
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2018-05-28
"Paeonia 'Pink Hawaiian Coral', 2018 photo, (2-SD-PK) Hybrid Peon
Location: Willamette Valley Oregon
Date: 2016-04-24
Photo taken at Adelman Peony Gardens

Date: 2014-05-25
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Photo by frankrichards16
Photo by CarolineScott
Location: My garden, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: 2016-05-19

Photo Courtesy of Homestead Farms Nursery. Used with Permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy

Date: 2007-02-17
Courtesy Peony Paradise
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Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania 17565
Date: 2017-05-03
Location: My garden, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: 2016-05-18
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2018-05-28
"Paeonia 'Pink Hawaiian Coral', 2018 photo, (2-SD-PK) Hybrid Peon
Location: garden of botanist Robert R. Kowal in Madison, Wisconsin
Date: May 13, 2012
photo by James Steakley
Photo by magnolialover
Photo by magnolialover
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2018-05-28
"Paeonia 'Pink Hawaiian Coral', 2018 photo, (2-SD-PK) Hybrid Peon
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2018-05-28
"Paeonia 'Pink Hawaiian Coral', 2018 photo, (2-SD-PK) Hybrid Peon
Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2017-06-18
I love the soft coral pink of this peony.

Photo courtesy of Brooks Gardens Peonies. Used with permission.
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Photo courtesy of Brooks Gardens Peonies. Used with permission.
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Photo by Cem9165

Photo Courtesy of Crossview Gardens. Used with Permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Grown in Kansas City, Missouri USA
Photo courtesy of: Charvex
Photo by Cem9165

Date: 2014-05-25
Photo by gemini_sage
Photo by magnolialover
Location: Ottawa
Date: June 20, 2022
Veseys
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Comments:
  • Posted by frankrichards16 (Clinton, Michigan - Zone 5b) on Apr 23, 2018 3:20 PM concerning plant:
    "Paeonia 'Pink Hawaiian Coral', (2-SD-PK) Hybrid Peony, (Roy Klehm, 1981), USDA Hardiness Zone 2, Medium height, semi-double, coral pink petals, cupped, notched petal edges, yellow stamens, pink tipped carpels, fragrant, early bloomer, Michigan Bloom Month 5-6.

    A cross of Charlie's White x Otto Froebel. Named after the color of the coral of the Hawaiian Islands. I have not been there or done that, so I cannot confirm. APS Gold Medal Award 2000. Award of Landscape Merit 2009."

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