This uniquely-colored Itoh hybrid comes to us from Wisconsin breeder Roger Anderson. ItÆs outstanding. The semi-double flowers a palette of golden yellow, orange, and red conjure a coppery effect. With its fairly large, domed shape, itÆs like a tree peony in habit. But then itÆs like a herbaceous peony, dying back to the ground in autumn, reappearing in early spring. Beautiful in arrangements and, once the first flowers are cut, itÆs more apt to rebloom later in the season. Thanks to its hybrid parentage, itÆs extremely vigorous and botrytis-resistant. A cross of herbaceous Paeonia lactiflora and the tree peony species P. lemoinei, this selection is long-lived, provided you plant it indeeply-enriched, well-drained soil.

these are seedlings: After waiting for more than four years for the first flowers of this exquisite form of a lovely species to blossom, we were rewarded last year by demure and elegant nodding pink-blushed buds opening to pure white flowers, held gracefully above handsome, finely cut foliage. For full sun or very light shade in any well-drained, humus-rich soil.