Great Lady
This is the second plant I’ve purchased as ‘Great Lady’. The first was incorrect but I am hoping this one is the real deal but I am still uncertain as it doesn’t match up well with what is sold by the French nursery, Pivoines Riviiere. Silvia described the stigmas as light pink while my plant has bright pink stigmas. I am impressed by its upright growth habit and pretty flowers.
| Cultivar: | Great Lady |
| Year: | 1943 |
| Seedling No: | 9816. Page 22 of Saunders’ Notebook I |
| Parentage: | 7: lactiflora 1952 X “lobata of Perry” |
| Flower: | Color: | deep rose pink, fades to light pink with darker flares |
| Form: | single, two rows of petals, 10-14 | |
| Blooms: | Week 5 | |
| Carpels: | 3-4, green, woolly | |
| Stigmas: | light pink (Silvia) mine dark pink | |
| Disc: | white, prominent | |
| Stamens: | filaments yellow | |
| Plant: | Habit: | upright |
| Foliage color: | medium green | |
| Foliage form: | narrow leaves, not lobed | |
| Height: | 32-38″ (reported – Klehm’s), 38″ in 2021 | |
| Recommendation: | Recommended |
| Availability: | Several specialty nurseries |
