Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: A. P. Saunders
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1942
Cultivar Group (Type): Herbaceous Hybrid
Season of bloom: Early (week 2)
Early Midseason (week 3)
Flower Form: Semi-Double
Flower Color: Red
Flower color description: Brilliant satin rounded bloom of intense crimson scarlet. Brightest crimson scarlet bomb.
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
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Plant Height: 30 inches
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Red
Flower Time: Spring
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Parentage: Adolphe Rousseau x Paeonia peregrina

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Garden Peony

Photo Gallery
Location: Arboretum Wojslawice. Poland.
Date: 2019-05-27
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-05
Anthers are supported on red filaments.  The carpels are pale gre

Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission
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Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-05
About as true a red as you could hope to find in a peony.
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-03
A peek inside an opening bud of Red Red Rose
Location: Arboretum Wojslawice. Poland.
Date: 2019-05-27
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-05
Planted fall 2016; photographed 2019.  A relatively slow growing

Photo Courtesy of Homestead Farms Nursery. Used with Permission.
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Location: Estonia
Date: 2021-06-11

Date: 2010-06-10
Photo courtesy of: Yoko Nekonomania

Date: 2010-06-10
Photo courtesy of: Yoko Nekonomania

Date: 2008-02-05
Courtesy Peony Paradise
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