Silver Sails
Reath and Saunders described the color as “palest clear yellow” while the Saunders catalogues used the term “pale silvery yellow”. ‘Silver Sails’ has a unique flower among the Saunders peonies and can’t be confused with other cultivars. Yay! In my garden its foliage has declined early.
| Cultivar: | Silver Sails |
| Year: | 1940 |
| Seedling No: | 266 lutea X tree peony (Moutan) |
| Group: | Roman Gold |
| Flower: | Color: | creamy yellow, very small red flares (barely visible) |
| Form: | listed as single but has up to 3 rows of petals | |
| Blooms: | Week 5 | |
| Carpels: | 4-6, green | |
| Stigmas: | cream | |
| Sheath: | cream | |
| Stamens: | red at base, shading to yellow, no pollen | |
| Plant: | Habit: | rounded bush |
| Foliage color: | medium green, some red on stems and leaf edges | |
| Foliage form: | narrower than most | |
| Height: | 21″ on 8 year plant | |
| Recommendation: | Collectors’ plant |
| Availability: | Rare |
