Ballerina. Our favorite A.P. Saunders introduction. From the cross P. wittmanniana x P. lactiflora ‘Lady Alexandra Duff’. Saunders didn’t have too many doubles, definitely not in the first generation of his crosses. This is one of the very few exceptions and it really is an excellent one. Pale yellow flowering early in the season. Large flowers…Read More
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liked this1 CommentAn interview with a peony farmer not too far away from here…
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liked thisNancy, nice colour, extremely large foliage, upright and seems to be a healthy plant and a good grower, also quite early.
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My established roots had extremely large carpels during flowering already this year.
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A seedling plant this one. Garden name ‘Kato001’, which is the best selection of some 400 to maturity grown seedlings of Pink Vanguard X Lavender Baby, and which thus has Paeonia coriacea genes. Very good garden plant, very early, but alas no cut flower because, although it remains firmly upright, the last part of the stem just below the flower…Read More
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‘Ballerina’ is the most beautiful of all Saunders’s peonies, IMHO.