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Originator/Registrant: Mains
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1956
Cultivar Group (Type): Herbaceous Hybrid
Season of bloom: Early (week 2)
Flower Form: Semi-Double
Flower Color: Red
Flower color description: Dark mahogany red, cupped and rounded outer petals and narrower and more deeply cut central petaloids, interspersed among thick, yellow anthers.
Flower size: Medium
Needs support: No
Awards: Gold Medal: APS Gold Medal 2010
Award of Landscape Merit: 2009

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 8b
Plant Height: 2.5 - 3 ft.
Plant Spread: 2.5 - 3 ft.
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Pollinators: Various insects
Awards and Recognitions: Other: APS Gold Medal '10
Parentage: Paeonia officinalis x Paeonia lactiflora

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Garden Peony

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Location: Zone 4 Wisconsin
Date: 2011-06-07
Location: From my garden. Poland.
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2024-05-17
Peony 'Buckeye Belle' 24W20 7yo xPeony R1 (Mains 1956) (2-SD-R) x
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2024-05-17
Peony 'Buckeye Belle' 24W20 7yo xPeony R1 (Mains 1956) (2-SD-R) x
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Location: From my garden. Poland.
Location: Zone 4 Wisconsin
Date: 2011-06-07
6-7-11 zone 4 Wisconsin
Location: My garden, zone 4 Wisconsin
Date: 2013-06-09
Location: Zone 4 Wisconsin
Date: 2009-06-03
6-3-09 zone 4 Wisconsin

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Location: RHS Wisley, UK
Date: 2013-06-20
Location: My garden, zone 4 Wisconsin
Date: 2012-04-28
Location: Mikkeli, Finland
Date: 18.6.2024

Photo Courtesy of Homestead Farms Nursery. Used with Permission.
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Location: From my garden. Poland.
Location: Adelman's Peony Garden, Salem, OR
Date: 2017-05-22
Full sun, 91 degrees F 32.7 degrees C
Location: My garden, zone 4 Wisconsin
Date: 2012-05-29
zone 4 Wisconsin
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Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: My garden, zone 4 Wisconsin
Date: 2012-04-28
Location: Wisconsin
Date: 2010-05-25
Zone 4 Wisconsin
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Date: 2008-04-17
Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms

photo credit: Averater
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Location: RHS Wisley, UK
Date: 2013-06-20
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: In my garden. Poland.

Date: 2007-01-23
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Photo courtesy of Longfield Gardens
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Location: From my garden. Poland.
Location: Elizabeth Colorado
Date: 2013-09-27
Location: Adelman's Peony Garden, Salem, OR
Date: 2017-05-22
flower show
Comments:
  • Posted by frankrichards16 (Clinton, Michigan - Zone 5b) on Mar 30, 2018 6:32 AM concerning plant:
    Peony 'Buckeye Bell' (Mains 1956) is a 24" semi-double hybrid (officinalis x albiflora). Dark red, medium sized flower. Wide outer petals and narrow center petals, interspersed with stamens, yellow anthers and red filaments. Carpels covered by petals. Walter Mains from Belle Center, Ohio introduced about 20 peonies in the mid 1950-60s. Only 'Buckeye Belle' and 'Walter Mains' are currently listed by Klehm Nursery.
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