{"id":3990,"date":"2017-05-23T17:40:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T17:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2020-05-30T16:39:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T16:39:31","slug":"the-itoh-peony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/the-itoh-peony\/","title":{"rendered":"The Itoh Peony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"827219ce0a87fa193c09e84c4c9a0f12\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:20px 0 20px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MOINSBD Link Top -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4387862990858706\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6762903103\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4323\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4323\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/paeonia-lollipop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/paeonia-lollipop.jpg 502w, https:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/paeonia-lollipop-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/paeonia-lollipop-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Itoh Paeonia &#8216;Lollipop&#8217;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>When only the very best will do!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are so excited about these amazing plants.\u00a0 They are herbaceous, so they die back to the ground every year, their foliage looks similar to a tree peony but the flowers, oh the flowers.\u00a0 They are similar to those of tree peonies with ENORMOUS single, semi-double and double forms in a variety of stunning colours that can reach 20cm (+7&#8243;) across and a mature plant can produce up to 50 blooms each season. \u00a0While ordinary garden peonies only bloom for a very short time, the Itoh will bloom for weeks and many will produce secondary blooms further down the stems.\u00a0 They have also inherited the tree peony\u2019s strong stems so no bending over in wind and rain\u2026 no staking required.<br \/>\nI could rave on but you just have to see them for yourself.\u00a0 I have my favourites but there\u2019s an Itoh out there for everyone!<br \/>\nObviously peonies with these characteristics have great ornamental value; in the 1990\u2019s <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Bartzella\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-bartzella.html\">\u2018Bartzella\u2019<\/a>, an improved yellow form of the original hybrids, was selling for more than $1000.00 for a single division!\u00a0 But thanks to recent developments in tissue culture, the Itoh hybrids are being made available at much more reasonable prices today.<br \/>\nEasy to grow and remarkable in beauty, an Itoh peony makes a perfect addition to any garden.\u00a0 It also makes a beautiful and meaningful gift.\u00a0 We\u2019re happy to report that these beauties are now available at your local garden centre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Out of the west &#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong>Available for shipping to your local garden centre:\u00a0 <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia 'Callie's Memory'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-callies-memory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Callie\u2019s Memory\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia 'Cora Louise'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-cora-louise.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Cora Louise\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia 'First Arrival'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-first-arrival.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018First Arrival\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Hillary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-hillary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Hillary\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Julia Rose\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-julia-rose.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Julia Rose\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Lollipop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-lollipop.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Lollipop\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Magical Mystery Tour\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-magical-mystery-tour.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Magical Mystery Tour\u2019<\/a>, \u2018Pastel Splendor\u2019, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Pink Double Dandy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-pink-double-dandy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Pink Double Dandy\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Raggedy Ann\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-raggedy-ann.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Raggedy Ann\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Smith Family Yellow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-smith-family-yellow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Smith Family Yellow\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Yankee Doodle Dandy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-yankee-doodle-dandy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Yankee Doodle Dandy\u2019<\/a> and <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Yellow Doodle Dandy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-yellow-doodle-dandy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Yellow Doodle Dandy\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The BC nursery sells\/ships in Canada &#8211; the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and in the USA &#8211; the Pacific Northwest and the Western Mountain States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Out of the East &#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong>Available for shipping to your local garden centre is:\u00a0 <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Bartzella\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-bartzella.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Bartzella\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Cora Louise\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-cora-louise.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Cora Louise\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia First Arrival\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-first-arrival.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018First Arrival\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Going Bananas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-going-bananas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Going Bananas\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Julia Rose\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-julia-rose.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Julia Rose\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Kopper Kettle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-kopper-kettle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Kopper Kettle\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Lollipop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-lollipop.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Lollipop\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Magical Mystery Tour\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-magical-mystery-tour.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Magical Mystery Tour\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Morning Lilac\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-morning-lilac.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Morning Lilac\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Sequestered Sunshine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-sequestered-sunshine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Sequestered Sunshine\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Singing in the Rain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/plants\/paeonia-singing-in-the-rain.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Singing in the Rain\u2019<\/a>, <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Smith Family Yellow\" href=\"http:\/\/staging13.do180.com\/plants\/paeonia-smith-family-yellow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Smith Family Yellow\u2019<\/a> and <a title=\"Itoh Paeonia Yankee Doodle Dandy\" href=\"http:\/\/staging13.do180.com\/plants\/paeonia-yankee-doodle-dandy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Yankee Doodle Dandy\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ontario nursery sells\/ships in Canada &#8211; the province of Ontario and other provinces to the east (under special conditions), open to garden centres and in the USA &#8211; the Northeast and Great Lakes Region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All you ever wanted to know about the Itoh Peony &#8230; Additional information for plant geeks!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back in the early 1900\u2019s lived a man who tried to accomplish the impossible.\u00a0 It was generally believed that crossing the beauty of the tree peony with the hardiness of the shrub peony was not possible since the two came from very different parentages.\u00a0 \u00a0But Dr. Toichi Itoh took it upon himself to make the impossible possible and made the quest for such a cross his life\u2019s work. \u00a0\u00a0Finally in 1948, after failing 20,000 times, Dr. Itoh succeeded in creating the first ever cross between P. x lemoinei, a hybrid tree peony, with P. lactiflora \u2018Kakoden\u2019, a white flowering herbaceous peony which was used as the seed parent.\u00a0 The results of this first cross were 36 seedlings, some of which had the dominant characteristics of the tree peony and became the first \u201cInter-sectional\u201d hybrids, named so because of the cross between section Moutan (tree peonies) and section Paeon (herbaceous peonies).<\/p>\n<p>In 1964 Dr. Itoh\u2019s first crosses came into bloom.\u00a0 Unfortunately Dr. Itoh passed away in 1956, 8 years prior to the first blooms appearing.\u00a0 He never saw the results of his years of work.<\/p>\n<p>Of the original 36 there were 6 that were considered to be outstanding.\u00a0 They became the first herbaceous peonies to have deep yellow, double yellow flowers.\u00a0 In the late 1960\u2019s an American horticulturist discovered Itoh\u2019s work and arranged to bring some of them back to the United States where he had 4 of the hybrids patented:\u00a0 \u2018Yellow Crown\u2019, \u2018Yellow Dream\u2019, \u2018Yellow Heaven\u2019, and \u2018Yellow Emperor\u2019. \u00a0Continued work on these original varieties has produced some amazing results.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perennials.com\/results.html?findplant=itoh+hybrid+peony&amp;searchbutton.x=0&amp;searchbutton.y=0\">Click here<\/a> for some of the beautiful Itoh Paeonia listed on our website &#8230;<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; 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We are so excited about these amazing plants.\u00a0 They are herbaceous, so they die back to the ground every year, their foliage looks similar to a tree peony but the flowers, oh the flowers.\u00a0 They are similar to those of tree peonies with ENORMOUS single, semi-double and double [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardeners-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11255,"href":"https:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions\/11255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perennials.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}