Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Hollingsworth
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1986
Cultivar Group (Type): Herbaceous Hybrid
Season of bloom: Early Midseason (week 3)
Flower Form: Bomb
Flower Color: Red
Flower color description: Warm, near spectral red, accented with occasional, yellow flecks on the edges of its outermost petaloides.
Flower size: Medium
Needs support: No
Awards: Gold Medal: 2007
Award of Landscape Merit: 2009

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
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 7b
Plant Height: 34 inches
Plant Spread: 36 inches
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Spring
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Pollinators: Various insects
Parentage: (Nippon Splendor x Good Cheer)

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Garden Peony
Also sold as:
  • Happy Returns

Photo Gallery
Location: Wojslawice Botanical Garden. Poland.
Date: 2022-06-10
Location: Wojslawice Botanical Garden. Poland.
Date: 2022-06-10

Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Zone 4 Wisconsin
Date: 2011-06-16
6-16-11 zone 4 Wisconsin

Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2018-10-05
"Paeonia 'Many Happy Returns', 2018 photo, Common Name: (3-DB-RD)
Location: My garden, zone 4 Wisconsin
Date: 2012-05-29
zone 4 Wisconsin
Location: Miller's Manor Gardens, Canby, OR.
Date: 2015-05-21
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Brussels)
Date: 2018-05-16
Uploaded by pardalinum
Location: Miller's Manor Gardens, Canby, OR.
Date: 2015-05-21
Location: My garden, zone 4 Wisconsin
Date: 2012-04-28
Location: Wisconsin
Date: 2010-05-27
Zone 4 Wisconsin

Photo courtesy of Brooks Gardens Peonies. Used with permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy

Date: 2008-02-09
Courtesy Peony Paradise
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Photo courtesy of Brooks Gardens Peonies. Used with permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: My garden, zone 4 Wisconsin
Date: 2012-05-03
zone 4 Wisconsin
Comments:
  • Posted by goldfinch4 (Ripon, Wisconsin) on Oct 12, 2011 3:26 PM concerning plant:
    This mid-season blooming peony may even be hardy to zone 2. Strong stems make this a good cut flower. In very warm areas the foliage will benefit from some afternoon shade. It has won the American Peony Society Gold Medal 2007 and Award of Landscape Merit 2009. (Nippon Splendor x Good Cheer)

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