An absolute stunner, this lovely perennial is an Intersectional Peony, a hybrid between traditional perennial varieties and the tougher tree peony, combining beauty, colour and robustness in one. Also known as an Itoh Peony after Dr. Toichi Itoh, 'Cora Louise' produces beautiful white flowers with frilly, ruffled centres and a unique lavender blush at the petal base. Highly prized by collectors these peonies quickly form a neat mound of deep-green foliage that acts as the perfect backdrop for its giant flowers - this superb peony will give you a tremendous display through May and into June.What's more, the blooms carry a light scent which is a joy on those sunny spring days! Long lived and easy to grow, this fully hardy peony is especially vigorous with sturdy flower stems that don't require staking - making them exquisite cut flowers. Perfect in mixed borders in sun or light shade, it's not a plant that enjoys the confines of a pot for too long - if you must grow them in a container, use a large one and after a few years unpot the plant and relocate to a bed or border. Plants will produce dozens of flowers when happy and because they grow wide rather than high, they are an excellent choice for a border hedge, with a wave of flowers which add to the overall planting scheme. Consider growing them in several groupings of three or more at intervals along the length of a flower border for an early wave of romantic colour tones. Supplied as a bare root plant ready for potting up and growing on or planting straight out when the soil has warmed.
What a cracker this lovely peony is, and a one off too. It's an Intersectional Peony, a hybrid between traditional perennial varieties and the tougher tree peony, combining beauty, colour and robustness in one, also known as an Itoh Peony after Dr. Toichi Itoh. Created in 1986, Paeonia Itoh 'Bartzella' produces beautiful lemon-yellow flowers with frilly, ruffled centres and unique magenta streaks at the petal base. This created quite a stir at the time, with an individual root selling for over $1000.00! Fortuantely now much more affordable, Bartzella quickly forms a neat mound of deep-green foliage that acts as the perfect backdrop for its giant flowers, this superb peony with flower its socks off in April and May, and even into June. What's more, the blooms carry a wonderful lemon-citrus scent which is a joy on those sunny spring days! Long lived and easy to grow, this fully hardy peony is especially vigorous with sturdy flower stems that don't require staking - making them exquisite cut flowers. Being a perennial, each autumn Bartzella retreats underground, only to emerge bigger and more floriferous next year. Perfect in mixed borders in sun or light shade, it's not a plant that enjoys the confines of a pot for too long - if you must grow them in a container, use a large one and after a few years unpot the plant and relocate to a bed or border. Plants will produce dozens of flowers when happy and because they grow wide rather than high, they are an excellent choice for a border hedge, with a wave of flowers which add to the overall planting scheme. Consider growing them in several groupings of three or more at intervals along the length of a flower border for an early wave of romantic colour tones. Supplied as a bare root plant ready for potting up and growing on or planting straight out when the soil has warmed.
This stunning hardy perennial is a real 'must' for the cut flower garden - its long stems are topped with exotic-looking double blooms in a remarkable blend of yellow and apricot with a pinky-purple blush on the edges of the showy petals. Fragrant flowers appear from May, bridging that gap between spring and summer.
Add the 'wow' factor to your late spring borders with this stunning peony! Peony 'Cora Louise' boasts ruffled white blooms that are flushed with lavender at the centre. The big showy blooms look magnificent in flower arrangements; exotic-looking and gently fragranced, they're really breathtaking in a vase in the home ? if you can bear to cut them from the garden!
One of a fabulous group of peonies known as Itoh Peonies, which blends the exotic looks of tree peonies with the herbaceous growth habit of herbaceous peonies, giving gardeners the best of both peony worlds! Truly stunning and highly unusual creamy yellow petals are striped and flecked with raspberry pink, so that no two flowers are the same.
Here's a really exotic-looking hardy perennial! Peony 'Border Charm' boasts lightly fragrant, semi-double blooms of the palest yellow which are splashed with coral at the base of each petal. Often called an Itoh Peony, these eye-catching varieties are bred to combine the exotic good looks of tree peonies with the herbaceous growth habit of herbaceous peonies ? giving the best of both worlds! These showy beauties will flower freely from late spring making a lovely addition to perennial borders and large containers.