I haven't followed up on it and I don't grow any of them myself. You're right to ask for it after so much time. It's strange, I don't see it listed on any of the of the supply lists of the growers I mentioned back then. If it...

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Very pretty peony.

Old Faithful is somewhat the exception to the rule here. It seems the petals can take water standing in the bud/open flower for a very, very long time before becoming infected with botrytis. I've never had any problems with flowers from them, notwithstanding the fact that the bud has...

The flowers tend to hold quite well. Five days later now and the flowers still look good. Here's a close-up of a flower that was open back then. It has paled of course but there's still some pink blush on the sides and I think it's still very attractive.