Peony 'Pastel Splendor' 23W23 Itoh G3- (Roger Anderson /Bill Seidl, Wisconsin, 1996) (3-SL-Y) Itoh Intersectional Peony, Mature plant size: 30in., Medium height, single to semi-double, yellow lavender petals, red flares, yellow stamens, light yellow sheath & stigmas, early midseason , USDA Hardiness Zone 3-8, Michigan Bloom Week ISO WW21, In Garden Bed G3 for 9.7 YEARS (Swenson). Planted in 2013.
American Peony Society: Parentage Martha W. x Saunders F2 A. First bloomed about 1988. This hybrid has pale lavender petals shading to cream toward center and dark purple flares. Two rows of five petals each reveal ten flares since there is, at most, only a thin stamen ring to obscure them. Multiple carpels, sometimes excessively so. Extremely vigorous. Original plant had 70 stems in a mounded plant 30″ high x 56″ wide in 1991, before division.
Opens yellow with a touch of lavender, fades to mostly yellow. Planted in 2013.
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Link to additional photos of this plant from 2014, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23:
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