(BBY x Kato001) 001 from the cross: (Vanilla Schnapp’s x (Pink Vanguard x Lavender Baby))
+Nice colour, good length, highly fertile, well closed buds, interesting parentage
-Stems are average of sturdiness, may still increase with age.

First bloomed 2006 from seeds collected 2002, first propagated 2007. Parentage; 'Lavender' open pollinated. Has had limited distribution since 2009 to breeders, and a few others, as 'Lavender Baby'. Early bloom season (6 days before 'Red Charm' in 2012). One flower per stem, flower size 5 inches (13 cm). No fragrance. Flowers are single, colored dark lavender, approaching purple tones. Carpels are light green, 3 on average, with dark purple stigmas. Filaments are the same color as the petals at the base, fading to near white at the tips. Has pollen and readily makes seeds under open pollination and also when crossed with tetraploids. Foliage with strongly divided narrow leaflets, grey-green color, with a matte finish. Average height at maturity 18 inches (45 cm).
Parentage: Blushing Princess x Salmon Dream. Blushing Princess is an F2 from P. lactiflora x Gwenda. Gwenda is an F2 from P. tenuifolia x P. mlokosewitschii. Salmon Dream is from Paula Fay x Moonrise. Paula Fay is from P. lactiflora x P. peregrina. Moonrise is an F2 from (another) P. lactiflora x P. peregrina. So Pink Vanguard has 4 species in its ancestry.
Seidl seedling number H-17. Early-Early Midseason, light milky pink, cupped Semi-double flower on a strong growing plant. Long, broad guard petals surround several rows of smaller inner petals having excellent substance, and stamens. Flower resists late freeze damage. Medium tall (40 inches) and erect, the plant is clothed in large blue-green leaflets. Side buds extend flowering. Seeds and pollen, parent of wanted forms.

Very dark red Jap. Good upright grower, vigorous, late, 34 inches. An improvement on Fuyajo. Seedling # JE-3.
Award of Landscape Merit (ALM) description: 'Charm' (Franklin, 1931) Lactiflora Group, Late mid-season, 38? — A lustrous and satiny, dark red Japanese form bloom with a center of the same red petaloids, etched yellow. Stiff and relatively straight stems angle outward gracefully to form a very large, harmoniously mounded, fountain of blooms. An eight-year-old plant matures to 40 or so stems that emerge from a relatively compact area. Although individual blooms are at their peak for a shorter duration than those of other lactifloras, plenty of side buds help 'Charm' maintain its striking presence in the landscape. One of the later Japanese form peonies to bloom.
Seedling TF-8. Parentage: (P. tenuifolia 'Plena' x P. tenuifolia 'Rosea')F2. First bloomed 2012, first propagated 2013. Fully double BOMB form. Baby pink flowers are borne 1 to a stem, 3¼ inches (8 cm) in size, up facing to slightly out facing. Two to three carpels on average which are glabrous to slightly tomentose, green and topped with whitish stigmas, the latter sometimes deformed. Disc poorly developed. No pollen, but as a pod parent normally fertile but not with other pink P. tenuifolia, so far. Not fragrant. Blooming time very early, together with or slightly ahead of P. tenuifolia 'Plena'. Finely cut foliage, pale green on emergence, is typical of the species. Average height to 15 inches (38 cm); support not needed. Named after originator's mother who was not the tallest person but the best mother one can imagine.