Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Auten
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1933
Season of bloom: Late Midseason (week 5)
Late (week 6)
Flower Form: Full Double
Flower Color: Pink
Flower color description: "A large rose-form pastel pink double with subtle lavender highlights" Very pale outer petals, darker in the center but still pastel
Flower size: large

General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Bi-Color: Pink and lavender
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Garden Peony

Photo Gallery
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2016-06-11
Auten's Pride peony - a pair of blooms to illustrate color variat
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-06-08
Auten's Pride peony - blooms often mature with paler guard petals
Location: My Garden in PA
Date: 2017-06-02
Slow to establish but the flowers are worth the wait.
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2016-06-11
Auten's Pride peony - pale blooms on plants with dark green folia
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2016-06-11
Auten's Pride peony - opening bud.  A beautiful preview of things

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