Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: William Krekler
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Midseason (week 4)
Flower Form: Japanese
Full Double
Flower Color: White
Pink
Flower color description: Pink with white center ball.
Needs support: No

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: 32 to 34 inches
Plant Spread: 24 to 30 inches
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Spring
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Pollinators: Various insects

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Japanese Peony

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Location: My garden, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: 2016-05-24
Root from Klehm's Song Sparrow Farm and Nursery; planted fall, 20
Location: Hillsborough, NC
Date: SPRING, May 4 2019
Wonderfully fragrant
Location: Millinocket, Maine
Date: 24 June 2023
Five years after planting it finally blossomed. Well worth the lo
Location: Hillsborough, NC
Date: May 4, 2019 
Needs no staking
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania 17565
Date: 2017-05-16
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania USA
Date: 2018-05-24
Delicious, sweet fragrance
Location: Baltimore, MD
Date: 2016-05-22
Location: southeast Ohio
Date: 2024-05-06
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania USA
Date: 2018-05-20
Very nice fragrance
Location: My garden, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: 2016-05-24
Root from Klehm's Song Sparrow Farm and Nursery; planted fall, 20
Location: Baltimore, MD
Date: 2016-05-25
Location: Chailey Iris Gardens, East Sussex.UK.
Date: 2022-06-11
Location: My garden, zone 4 Wisconsin
Date: 2012-05-29
zone 4 Wisconsin
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania USA
Date: 2018-05-24
Location: Poland.
Date: 2012-06-08
Location: Zone 4 Wisconsin
Date: 2009-06-09
6-9-09 zone 4 Wisconsin
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania USA
Date: 2018-05-20
Very nice fragrance
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania USA
Date: 2018-05-20

Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms
Location: CZ Sirem My garden
Date: 2015-05-25
Location: My garden, zone 4 Wisconsin
Date: 2012-05-29
zone 4 Wisconsin
Location: New York Botanical Gardens Bronx NY
Date: May 23, 2015
Full sun.
Location: Zone 4 Wisconsin
Date: 2011-06-09
6-9-11 Zone 4 Wisconsin
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania USA
Date: 2018-05-20
Very nice fragrance
Location: Wisconsin
Date: 2010-06-02
Zone 4 Wisconsin

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