Peony 'Athena' 24W18 xPeony G2-
Peony 'Athena' 24W18 xPeony G2- (Saunders, 1955) (1-SL-WH) quadruple hybrid xPeony Peony, Mature plant size: 36in, WH medium height, single, ivory white, raspberry flares, gold stamens, bright green carpels with pink tips, no side-buds, very early bloomer, USDA Hardiness Zone 3-8, Michigan Bloom Week ISO WW19, In Garden Bed G2 for 19.6 YEARS (Adelman). Planted in 2004.
Paeonia 'Athena' (Saunders, 1949) is an extra early blooming quadruple hybrid, a hybrid composed of four different peony species: lactiflora, officinalis, macrophylla and mlokosewitschi. An ivory-white single with raspberry flares. Gold stamens and bright green carpels with rosy pink tips. No sidebuds. Professor A.P. Saunders (1869-1953) is commonly known as the father of inter-species herbaceous hybrid peonies. He introduced around 300 hybrid peonies with the median distribution occurring in 1941. Peonies are blooming a couple of weeks later this year, 2019. Measured 36" and had late frost damage to buds in 2020.
Photo by Frank D.Richards, Washtenaw County, Michigan. Creative Commons Copyright CC BY-SA 4.0.
Link to additional photos of this plant on my Flickr account from 2009, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24:
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Peony 'Athena' 24W18 xPeony G2-
Peony 'Athena' 24W18 xPeony G2- (Saunders, 1955) (1-SL-WH) quadruple hybrid xPeony Peony, Mature plant size: 36in, WH medium height, single, ivory white, raspberry flares, gold stamens, bright green carpels with pink tips, no side-buds, very early bloomer, USDA Hardiness Zone 3-8, Michigan Bloom Week ISO WW19, In Garden Bed G2 for 19.6 YEARS (Adelman). Planted in 2004.
Paeonia 'Athena' (Saunders, 1949) is an extra early blooming quadruple hybrid, a hybrid composed of four different peony species: lactiflora, officinalis, macrophylla and mlokosewitschi. An ivory-white single with raspberry flares. Gold stamens and bright green carpels with rosy pink tips. No sidebuds. Professor A.P. Saunders (1869-1953) is commonly known as the father of inter-species herbaceous hybrid peonies. He introduced around 300 hybrid peonies with the median distribution occurring in 1941. Peonies are blooming a couple of weeks later this year, 2019. Measured 36" and had late frost damage to buds in 2020.
Photo by Frank D.Richards, Washtenaw County, Michigan. Creative Commons Copyright CC BY-SA 4.0.
Link to additional photos of this plant on my Flickr account from 2009, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24:
www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=50697352%40N00&sort=da...
#Michigan, #49236, #usdaZone6, #week1, #Single, #Perennial, #nosidebuds, #VeryEarly, #2020Top20, #Peony, #white, #Athena, #XPEONY, #24W18