Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Auten
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1946
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Early Midseason (week 3)
Midseason (week 4)
Flower Form: Anemone
Flower Color: Pink
Flower color description: Light orchid guard petals, washed pink...Staminodes can be...orchid, pink, wine red or light yellow. Though centers are usually darker than their surround, it's not always the case. Centers can vary greatly from year to year.
Needs support: No
Awards: Gold Medal: 2004
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 7b
Plant Height: 30 to 33 inches
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Pollinators: Various insects

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Chinese Peony
  • Garden Peony

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Location: Durham, NC
Date: 2019-04-28
In full sun.
Photo by Mieko2
Location: my front yard
Date: 2012-05-18
Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2020-06-25
One of my favourite peonies!
Location: Cowansville, Quebec, Canada
Date: 2017-06-17
Location: My garden, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: 2016-05-27
Source: Klehm's Song Sparrow Farm and Nursery; planted fall, 2014
Location: my front yard
Date: 2012-05-14
Location: springfield MO
Date: 2019-05-05
Photo by gemini_sage

Date: 2012-05-25
Location: Heirloom Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, MI
Date: 2011-06-06
Location: Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, USA
Date: 2019-05-21
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Location: springfield MO
Date: 2019-05-03
Location: My garden, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: 2016-05-25
Location: My garden, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: 2016-05-25
Location: Meise botanical garden

Date: 2012-05-25
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-06-01
"Paeonia 'Do Tell', 2017, (3-JAP-PK) Chinese or lactiflora [Peony
Location: Heirloom Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, MI
Date: 2011-06-06
Location: Heirloom Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, MI
Date: 2011-06-06
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Location: garden of botanist Robert R. Kowal in Madison, Wisconsin
Date: May 20, 2012
photo by James Steakley
Location: my front yard
Date: 2012-05-18
Photo by Cem9165
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2018-05-28
"Paeonia 'Do Tell', 2018 photo, (3-JAP-PK) lactiflora cultivar Pe

Date: 2021-10-15
Location: Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, USA
Date: 2019-05-21
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania 17565
Date: 2017-05-16

Photo courtesy of Brooks Gardens Peonies. Used with permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2019-04-25
Do Tell Peony 047
Location: Meise botanical garden
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-06-01
"Paeonia 'Do Tell', 2017, (3-JAP-PK) Chinese or lactiflora [Peony
Location: Heirloom Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, MI
Date: 2011-06-06
Photo by Cem9165
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania 17565
Date: 2017-05-16
Location: Saaremaa, Estonia
Date: 2022-06-25

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

Date: 2012-05-25

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

Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms
  • Uploaded by Joy

Date: 2016-06-05

Date: 2016-06-05
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2018-05-28
"Paeonia 'Do Tell', 2018 photo, (3-JAP-PK) lactiflora cultivar Pe
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2018-05-28
"Paeonia 'Do Tell', 2018 photo, (3-JAP-PK) lactiflora cultivar Pe
Location: Adelman's Peony Garden, Salem, OR
Date: 2017-05-22
flower show
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania 17565
Date: 2017-05-16
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Comments:
  • Posted by frankrichards16 (Clinton, Michigan - Zone 5b) on Apr 4, 2018 10:40 AM concerning plant:
    Paeonia 'Do Tell', (3-JAP-PK) lactiflora cultivar Peony, (Auten, 1946), USDA Hardiness Zone 3, 32" tall, Japanese form, pale orchid or shell pink, darker pink center, midseason bloomer, slight fragrance, Bloom Month 5-6 Outer petals very pale orchid pink, narrow center petals much darker, some red. Root did not look that good 2014. No buds 2015. First blooms in 2016, better in 2017.

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