I could use some help in identifying four peonies in our botanical garden. They were planted without tags but I know their names; just not which is which and there appear to be multiples of each one: Felix Crousse, Felix Supreme, Adolphe Rousseau, Kansas, Shawnee Chief, and Karl Rosenfield. I have taken pictures then put numbered stakes at the base of those with pictures. They are planted so close together it is difficult to discern how many plants are there in one spot unless one is very different. Which is the case in one 'clump' of three. Two have red veins in the stems and dark green leaves, the third has totally green stems and very simple green leaves. Just one example. It was easy to eliminate Bowl of Beauty and General MacMahan. There was just a bit of a barely legible nursery tag on the three or four in the front area that we figured was General something or other. So we checked the purchase invoice and there it was. That was last year, the tag got lost but when they bloomed he really stuck out. And of course mixed in with all those huge wine red bombs, Bowl of Beauty stuck out. I told them they need to move it. You can barely see it.
Anyway, if anyone has any of these plants and would be so very kind to take photos of the stems and leaves I would appreciate it. I have tons of pictures of the blooms but they are in some cases very similar. I even printed pictures from the Nichols Arboretum figuring that their pictures would be truer to form than that of vendors. At least if you live in Michigan they would be.
Plus sometimes what is a double bomb form might decide to be onery and product singles early on. Right now I have tons of blooms and the foliage is great so I have the best chance to identify them. I started a section in the three ring binder I carry around the garden that is just closeups of leaves and stems with the accession number and name of each one. We differentiated Scarlett O'Hara from an unnamed one right in front by that method. And the same with Raspberry Sundae (two different garden beds).
Thanks so much for any assistance you can offer. I will of course give attribution for each picture in our records
