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Peony |
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Garden Peony |
Originator/Registrant: | Saunders |
Year of Registration or Introduction: | 1949 |
Cultivar Group (Type): | Herbaceous Hybrid |
Season of bloom: | Very Early (week 1) Early (week 2) |
Flower Color: | White Pink |
Flower color description: | Creamy buff. Ivory-white to apricot-yellow with prominently present lavender flares at the base of the flower petals. No sidebuds. |
Flower size: | Medium |
Plant Habit: | Herb/Forb |
Life cycle: | Perennial |
Sun Requirements: | Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Water Preferences: | Mesic Dry Mesic |
Plant Height: | 24 to 36 inches (60-90 cm) |
Leaves: | Unusual foliage color |
Fruit: | Dehiscent |
Flowers: | Showy Fragrant |
Flower Time: | Spring |
Underground structures: | Rhizome |
Uses: | Cut Flower |
Wildlife Attractant: | Bees |
Propagation: Seeds: | Will not come true from seed |
Propagation: Other methods: | Division Crowns |
Pollinators: | Various insects |
Parentage: | P. lactiflora X ((P. macrophylla x P. mlokosewitschii) x P. officinalis) |
Posted by frankrichards16 (Clinton, Michigan - Zone 5b) on Mar 24, 2018 9:37 AM Paeonia 'Athena' (Saunders, 1949) is an extra early blooming quadruple hybrid, a hybrid composed of four different peony species: lactiflora, officinalis, macrophylla and mlokosewitschi. An ivory-white single with raspberry flares. Gold stamens and bright green carpels with rosy pink tips. No sidebuds. Professor A.P. Saunders (1869-1953) is commonly known as the father of inter-species herbaceous hybrid peonies. He introduced around 300 hybrid peonies with the median distribution occurring in 1941. [ Reply to this comment | |
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