I feel extra lucky now that I was able to add Impossible Dream to my collection the year before last. I know it's been touched on already in another thread, but it's such a shame that Parkland had to close. They are pretty close to me and I was hoping to make it up one of these years to visit their gardens.
I recently discovered that a local garden center will be carrying Caroline Constabel, a new Itoh variety with double pink flowers and dark flares. It is being introduced by Planteck who propagates by tissue culture (seems like this keeps coming up). Apparently the plant is named after one of the leading scientists that developed tissue culture propagation technology for commercial production. You can find the image on Google if you are interested. It's a pretty interesting Itoh. With any luck I'll be able to find a plant with some buds or flowers and share the photos here.
Edit: Planteck's 2016 catalog just went up and can be found here:
http://www.planteck.com/ben/
It's funny that they're now producing Impossible Dream right after we were discussing being unable to find someone who sells it. Note the appearance of peonies that were previously exclusive to Select Plus (I hope my Haleigh's Hallelujah looks that double some day). Interesting.
