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Re: [SG] Peony

Sandy, Field's sent you the wrong peony. I checked Henry Mitchell (THE
ESSENTIAL EARTHMAN) and the double red peonies he mentions are Kansas,
Philippe Rivoire, Karl Rosenfeld (or Rosenfield), and Richard Kervel or
something like that (I can't read my notes now). Philippe R. should NOT be
pale pink. Mitchell doesn't elaborate on the various shades of red these
four are so I don't know which is the Grandmother's Peony you remember.

I recall seeing a very dark red peony, one of the fernleaf species types,
years ago. It was worth its weight in platinum to the owner. Very old, not
very big, slow growing. I've seen them for sale (at Klehm's and various
places) recently for Big Bucks. If Grandmother's peony was a fernleaf
type, maybe this is what you recall. The leaves are very different. But if
it is a "normal" peony that you remember, then it was probably one of the
four above.

Bobbi Diehl
Bloomington, IN
zone 5/6

On Thu, 28 May 1998, Sandy Fry wrote:

> I remember that in the small towns in the midwest there used to be a
> popular peony that had a very dark red bloom, almost blackish red.
> Everyone's Grandmother
> had one. I tried to find one for my father a few years ago and ordered
> one that
> was supposed to be be dark, called "Philippe Revoir" (or something like that)
> from Henry Field's. When it eventually bloomed it was pale pink.
> Does anyone know what variety the very dark red could be?
>
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