Over the previous couple of weeks, the backyard employees of Coastal Maine Botanical Backyard has been getting collectively to stroll round and critique one another’s backyard areas. This has been an incredible train for the gardeners and horticulturalists to look again over the yr and see what labored and what must be improved. It has been great for me as I’m nonetheless studying the gardens, the vegetation, and the way every individual gardens of their space.
We will have some fairly prolonged discussions on what needs to be performed subsequent. In case you are a gardener, then you realize simply how passionate and opinionated all of us could be about our gardens and vegetation. Of the entire thousand or so vegetation we mentioned, one plant, palms down, was a crowd favourite. That plant was Paeonia ‘Bartzella.’ The Bartzella peony drew oohs and aahs from all of our employees.
For our backyard, the large (6-8″ extensive), yellow flowers come on in June and flower over a 5-week interval. As soon as this plant is established, it’ll fill out to change into a 3′ by 3′ clump.
About Itoh Peonies
Bartzella is without doubt one of the newer teams of peonies known as Itoh or intersectional hybrids. Because of this they’re hybrids that outcome from the cross-breeding of a tree peony with an herbaceous peony.
The identify Itoh is in honor of Mr. Toichi Itoh, the primary individual to hybridize these vegetation efficiently. The result’s a plant that’s powerful and dependable, like an herbaceous peony, with the large foliage and flowers of the tree peony.
Itoh peonies do die again to the bottom in late fall however re-emerge every spring. To me, that’s the better of each worlds as a result of I really like the flowers on tree peonies however I don’t like that they appear half-dead when not in flower.
The herbaceous peony genetics yield a extra garden-worthy plant. The Bartzella peony is hardy from zones 4-8, so it ought to do properly for many gardens. Y
ou can plant it in most backyard situations; we’ve got ours in a raised mattress with full solar for a lot of the day. I’m searching for areas so as to add extra of this peony together with different Itoh peonies as a result of they’re attractive and considerably straightforward to develop.
– Rodney
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