Lovely Rose
This is a favorite among peony growers. It earned the Award of Landscape Merit given by the American Peony Society. It is one of the best of the “lobata hybrids” and should be in every peony garden!
| Cultivar: | Lovely Rose |
| Year: | 1942 |
| Seedling No: | 9465. Page 22 of Saunders’ Notebook I |
| Parentage: | 7: lactiflora ‘Primavere’ X “lobata of Perry” |
| Flower: | Color: | (slightly salmon) pink, darker pink shading towards base of petals, white flares on underside of petals |
| Form: | semi-double, 2-3 rows of petals | |
| Blooms: | Week 5 | |
| Carpels: | 4, light green, woolly | |
| Stigmas: | light cream pink | |
| Disc: | white | |
| Stamens: | filaments light yellow | |
| Plant: | Habit: | rounded bush |
| Foliage color: | medium green, matte, some red in stems | |
| Foliage form: | terminal leaf of leaflet often lobed | |
| Height: | 36″ in 2021 | |
| Recommendation: | Highly recommended] |
| Availability: | Many specialty nurseries |
