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Peony 'Pastel Splendor' 24W21 11yo

Peony 'Pastel Splendor' 24W21 11yo Itoh G3 (Roger Anderson /Bill Seidl, Wisconsin, 1996) (3-SL-Y) Itoh Intersectional Peony, 30in.@ Maturity, YE Medium height, single to semi-double, yellow lavender petals, red flares, yellow stamens, light yellow sheath & stigmas, early midseason , Hardy to Zone 3-8, Garden G3 (SRC Swenson) PLTD 2013.

 

American Peony Society: Parentage Martha W. x Saunders F2 A. First bloomed about 1988. This hybrid has pale lavender petals shading to cream toward center and dark purple flares. Two rows of five petals each reveal ten flares since there is, at most, only a thin stamen ring to obscure them. Multiple carpels, sometimes excessively so. Extremely vigorous. Original plant had 70 stems in a mounded plant 30″ high x 56″ wide in 1991, before division.

 

Opens yellow with a touch of lavender, fades to mostly yellow. Planted in 2013.

 

Photo by F.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 2014, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24:

 

www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=50697352%40N00&sort=da...

 

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Uploaded on July 18, 2025
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