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| Callie's Memory |
The bounty of early summer bloom is upon us... it would be easy to feature a wide range of blossoming plants on this Fertilizer Friday (see link on the right), but I thought it better to choose one plant group to share today. The intersectional peonies (originally Itoh hybrids after the hybridizer) are just now coming into bloom.
Intersectionals are crosses between tree peonies which just finished blooming in the gardens, and herbaceous, also pretty much gone over in my gardens with the exception of my large Tinka Philips.
Pictured above and below is Callies's Memory, the first plant of which first bloomed in 1990 and was registered in 1999. It is one of the intersectionals that can have different pastel colored blossoms on the same plant... this has to do with aging of the blooms but it occurred almost immediately with my plants this season, making me wonder whether the blooms sometimes open in different shades and colors. Note in the second photo below that one bloom opened with only the bright burgundy flares.
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| Callie's Memory |
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| Callie's Memory |
Another intersectional which shows more than one color of bloom on a single plant is Pastel Splendor pictured below. My friend Bill Seidel introduced this plant from Roger Anderson seed in 1996. These blooms can get up to 10" wide although I haven't had that yet... perhaps it takes a few years of plant growth to achieve blossoms of that size.
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| Pastel Splendor |
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| Pastel Splendor |
Cora Louise can be stunning when the blooms fully open... my first blossom of the season is pictured here...
Of course my all time favorite and perhaps the best known intersectional is Bartzella... I like it so well that I have four plants and plan on getting more eventually, or dividing some of what I have. Here are the first two blooms of this season, with many more to come. Bartzella also reblooms some giving us up to six weeks to enjoy its beauty. It was developed in Wisconsin by Roger Anderson. It is a plant that should be in every garden, holding its blooms high through wind and rain. With age, a plant can easily exhibit 100 blooms.
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| Bartzella |
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