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
Still testing long-term storage with ULO treatment. Lots of disappointments this year, I’ve thrown away thousands and thousands of peony stems. However there’s a glimmer of hope, these are now 80 days old after cutting them and seem to be the first bunch that is truly able to compete with freshly cut ones.
1 CommentJoshua Scholten’s peony farm in Holland specializes in hybridizing peonies to distinguish himself.
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‘Ballerina’ is the most beautiful of all Saunders’s peonies, IMHO.