Bill Seidl, a well-known American hybridizer of advanced herbaceous and tree hybrid peonies, passed away October 8th, 2016.  I've only had a few short e-mail conversations with him several years ago, so I won't claim to have known him...

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Something bizarre happened this year. As I was wandering through my fields of blooming peonies, I passed at a row of some 20 Rozella plants. In between the row of dark pink flowers were three pale pink ones, obviously...

Ballerina is a peony bred by A.P. Saunders in 1941 from the cross Wittmanniana x Lactiflora 'Lady Alexandra Duff'. This one is in fact a difficult cross as Saunders himself would put it:"This (wittmanniana, kh) is a plant which...