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Here’s Brian as he starts to plant – more than 20 in this bed. They can grow vigorously to three feet tall and four feet wide and will grow a second set of blooms – up to 60 blooms on a healthy and mature plant. These peonies are planted about three feet apart to give them ample room to grow. Ryan carefully positions all the peonies in the beds – all in lines and grouped by color. Beneath the soil, there are also hundreds of spring blooming white snow drop bulbs, which also bloom in spring. Here is one of the beds all cleared and ready for planting. The hostas were moved to another area make room for the peony plants. I wanted the yellow and apricot peonies to be planted in the formal rectangular beds behind my Summer House. Some of these pink peonies will be placed in my tree peony border. This cultivar was hybridized by Don Smith, a leading Itoh Peony breeder. The petals then fade to a soft pink, revealing a cluster of yellow stamens in the center. The blooms are dark lavender-pink when mature. This is ‘Pink Double Dandy.’ When blooming, it shows off large, semi-double to double, lightly fragrant flowers on strong stems above a compact mound of dark green foliage. The flowers have a soft, pleasing scent, and are displayed on long stems, which are perfect for cutting. This Itoh peony is called ‘Singing in the Rain,’ which features huge, semi-double, creamy flowers delicately flushed in apricot-salmon. ‘Bartzella’ also has a slightly spicy aroma. And tucked within the fluffy blossoms are flares of red. The outer layers are a lighter lemon meringue color, becoming a more rich yellow toward the center.
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This one features extra-large, vibrant yellow blooms. Toichi Itoh, a Japanese botanist, was the first person to successfully combine the pollen from a tree peony with the ovary of an herbaceous peony in the 1940s. Itoh peonies are hybrids of herbaceous peonies and tree peonies. The varieties we received include this gorgeous ‘Bartzella’ Itoh peony. All of them are from Monrovia, where they grow more than 18 different varieties of these “Itoh” peonies. When these peonies arrived, I already knew where to place them. Yesterday, my gardeners planted about 50 yellow and salmon Itoh peonies - I just can't wait to see them bloom in May.Īs a serious and passionate gardener, I am always looking for ways to add more beauty and texture to all my garden beds. I decided these hybrid peonies would be perfect in the formal Summer House garden beds surrounded by my green boxwood hedges. Recently, I received a large collection of intersectional Itoh peonies grown by Monrovia, a wholesale plant nursery specializing in well-nurtured shrubs, perennials, annuals, ferns, grasses, and conifers with several nursery locations across the country. And, I also have tree peonies planted in the sunken garden behind my Summer House.
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I have a giant bed completely dedicated to pink and white herbaceous peonies just across the carriage road from my home. I have a long tree peony border planted under the semi-shade of giant sugar maples at one corner of the farm. I simply adore peonies and have been collecting them for quite some time. Come spring, I'll have more gorgeous peonies blooming than ever before here at my Bedford, New York farm.