Doreen Peony

Ornamental Features:

Doreen Peony features bold lightly-scented lavender cup-shaped flowers with pink overtones, yellow eyes and buttery yellow anthers at the ends of the stems from late spring to early summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It's compound leaves remain green in colour throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Doreen Peony is an herbaceous perennial with a more or less rounded form. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This is a relatively low maintenance perennial, and should be cut back in late fall in preparation for winter. Deer don't particularly care for this plant and will usually leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Disease

Doreen Peony is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Doreen Peony will grow to be about 30 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 3 feet. The flower stalks can be weak and so it may require staking in exposed sites or excessively rich soils. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.

This perennial should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil pH, but grows best in rich soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This plant can be propagated by division.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.