Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Carl G. Klehm
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1970
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Late Midseason (week 5)
Flower Form: Bomb
Flower Color: Pink
Needs support: No
Awards: Gold Medal: 2005
Award of Landscape Merit: 2010

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: 26 to 32 inches
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Crowns
Pollinators: Various insects

Image
Common names
  • Peony
  • Chinese Peony

Photo Gallery

Date: 2017-05-03
Just opening
Location: Poland
Date: 2023-07-02
Very young plant, still in a pot but very promising :)
Location: My Garden in PA
Date: 2022-05-28
Location:  Christiansberg Botanical Garden. Germany.
Date: 2023-06-14
Location:  Christiansberg Botanical Garden. Germany.
Date: 2023-06-14
Location: Poland
Date: 2023-07-03
Exceptional :)

Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission
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Photo by Mieko2

Date: 4000-02-21
Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms

Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Willamette Valley Oregon
Date: 2014-05-23
Photo taken at Adelman Peony Gardens
Location: southeast Ohio
Date: 2017-05-16
Location: New York Botanical Gardens Bronx NY
Date: May 23, 2015
Full sun.

Courtesy Peony Paradise
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Location: Meadowlark Botanical Garden, Fairfax, Virginia (May 2022)
Date: 2022-05-01
Location: Poland. In my garden.
Date: 2015-06-20
Location: Poland. In my garden.
Date: 2015-06-20

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