2017 Herbaceous Hot 100 Peony Catalog Price Comparison List

I've been doing my Intersectional Peony Catalog Price Comparison Lists for a few years now. This year I thought it might also be helpful to list some of the pricey herbaceous peonies that people might be interested in. There a several up and coming hot herbaceous peonies that tend to be around or above the $100 price range. Some of these peonies can be hard to find and acquire because their stock is so limited. So this list will give you a heads up of where you can find them and who has them priced for what. Even if you don't want to spend that much on one peony (yet!), at least you can drool! Enjoy! (Also if you'd like your company to be listed here, please join the American Peony Society as a Commercial Member, since this is where I obtain my peony grower information.)

Photo Courtesy of Flower Muse

Varieties Offered		Peony Vendor
3		Adelman
1		Blossom Hill
4		Brooks
1		Cricket Hill
1		Fina
7		Hidden Springs
15		Hollingsworth
0		Peony's Envy
5		Peony Shop Holland
17		Solaris Farms
3		Song Sparrow
0		Swenson

Herbaceous Peony	Price	Vendor
Alexander Woollcott	$75.00	Hidden Springs
Blood Moon	$225.00	Solaris Farms
Bob	$125.00	Hidden Springs
Callisto	$80.00	Solaris Farms
Dione	$100.00	Solaris Farms
Dreamtime	$115.00	Solaris Farms
Europa	$225.00	Solaris Farms
Faithful Dream	$140.00	Hollingsworth
Golden Angel	$125.00	Song Sparrow
Golden Wheel	$125.00	Cricket Hill
John's Dream	C$350.00	Blossom Hill
Juliska	$80.00	Solaris Farms
Juliska	$95.00	Hidden Springs
Juliska	$100.00	Hollingsworth
Kathy's Touch	$80.00	Hollingsworth
Kayleigh Ann	$200.00	Hollingsworth
Lavender	$90.00	Hollingsworth
Lemon Chiffon	€21.00	Peony Shop Holland
Lemon Chiffon	$90.00	Brooks
Lemon Chiffon	$90.00	Hollingsworth
Lemon Chiffon	$95.00	Solaris Farms
Lemon Chiffon	$99.99	Hidden Springs
Lemon Chiffon	$115.99	Fina
Lemon Chiffon	$135.99	Song Sparrow
Little Dorrit	$125.00	Brooks
Little Corporal	$90.00	Solaris Farms
Little Corporal	$120.00	Hollingsworth
Lois' Choice	$85.00	Brooks
Lois' Choice	$89.99	Hidden Springs
Lois' Choice	$90.00	Adelman
Lois' Choice	$90.00	Hollingsworth
Lois' Choice	$90.00	Solaris Farms
Lois' Choice	€120.00	Peony Shop Holland
Old Soldier	$80.00	Solaris Farms
Old Soldier	$80.00	Hollingsworth
Paeonia mlokosewitschii	$75.00	Brooks
Pastelegance	$199.00	Adelman
Pastelegance	$200.00	Hollingsworth
Pastelegance	€200.00	Peony Shop Holland
Pastelegance	$240.00	Solaris Farms
Pastelorama	$200.00	Solaris Farms
Pearled Lemon Cream	$100.00	Song Sparrow
Quitzin	$350.00	Hollingsworth
Red Rock Canyon	$175.00	Solaris Farms
Sky Dance	$80.00	Solaris Farms
Steven Ambrose	$200.00	Hidden Springs
Summer Glow	$75.00	Hidden Springs
Summer Glow	$70.00	Adelman
Sunny Boy	€500.00	Peony Shop Holland
Sunny Day	€125.00	Peony Shop Holland
Tranquil Dove	$90.00	Hollingsworth
Triton	$100.00	Solaris Farms
Tropicana	$75.00	Solaris Farms
Tropicana	$124.00	Hollingsworth
Vanilla Schnapps	$125.00	Solaris Farms
Vanilla Schnapps	$150.00	Hollingsworth
Virginia Emerson	$100.00	Hollingsworth

2017 First Intersectional Peony Gift from a Friend

USPS Priority Mail Box with Peony Gift
This week I was delighted to receive my first ever division of an intersectional peony as a gift from a Southern peony friend. Sure my Mom has bought me a peony for my birthday before (and of course that was much appreciated), but I had never received a division from a peony friend's own garden. So it was especially nice to receive a box from a fellow Southern peony gardener this week with a division of 'Sonoma YeDo' in it. The box was large, but rather light. However, when I opened the box, the root was huge, and despite its lack of packing material, not even one root appeared to have been broken. Way to go USPS Priority Mail!
Peony Root in Reused (Yay!) Southern States Bag
The root was simply wrapped in a reused retail bag, with a name on it I thought appropriate - Southern States. :-) The root itself easily had more than 10 pink eyes on it and more than 10 stems cut back from the previous season - a very large root. So it seems very likely that I will get a bloom from this one this year! How exciting! I am keeping my fingers crossed. I will definitely be posting some pics if I get a bright, yellow bloom from this Intersectional Peony 'Sonoma YeDo' this year! :-D
Intersectional Peony 'Sonoma YeDo'

2017 Transplant Late Blooming Dark Pink Herbaceous Peony

Transplanted Peony of Interest's Pink Bud	Transplanted Peony's Faded Tag

I know it is super late in the season (read: past the season) to transplant peonies. However, I took advantage of the 62° day we had this week (now that the snow and ice has melted) to transplant a peony that looked promising to me last spring. It is a dark pink herbaceous peony, and I had tagged it as "WATCH LATE BLOOMER" at the end of the peony bloom season. It was particularly interesting to me because it was the only peony blooming after all of the other peonies in the bed had finished blooming. That is a valuable peony to have. I am curious to see when and how it blooms next spring. So I moved it from a crowded seedling bed to a less crowded seedling bed. Since I missed getting pictures of the blooms last spring, I will be sure to get some photos of its flowers when it blooms.
Transplanted Peony's Roots and Brown Stem