Roselette
‘Roselette’ earned the Award of Landscape Merit from the American Peony Society for its early and abundant bloom, flowers held above the foliage, weather resistance, and foliage which remains attractive throughout the year.
| Cultivar: | Roselette |
| Year Registered: | 1950 |
| Seedling No: | 16064 (possibly 16064-69). Page 2a of Saunders’ Notebook I |
| Parentage: | 26: lactiflora X ‘Gwenda’ ((‘Gwenda’ = (tenuifolia X mlokosewitschii)) |
| Flower: | Color: | light rose pink with white flares |
| Form: | single, 8-10 petals | |
| Blooms: | Week 2 | |
| Carpals: | 4, light green, woolly | |
| Stigmas: | bright red | |
| Disc: | light pink, obscure | |
| Stamens: | filaments light yellow | |
| Plant: | Habit: | spreading bush |
| Foliage color: | light green | |
| Foliage form: | narrow leaves, mostly entire (not lobed) | |
| Height: | 36″ (reported); 32″ in 2021 but had been moved in 2019, 39″ in 2022 | |
| Recommendation: | Highly recommended] |
| Availability: | Most specialty nurseries |
