Peony Hybridizers

Want to know more about the hybridizer of your favorite peonies? Check out these hybridizer interviews for insights into the thoughts and experiences of the breeders of your garden collectibles.

  • Hybridizer Don R. Smith

    1. Did your early life give you an introduction to the world of plants and flowers? "When I was a child, we lived in a small house with a small yard in a little town in northeast New Jersey. Neither of my parents were gardeners, but I remember...

  • Hybridizer Don Hollingsworth

    1. Did your early life give you an introduction to the world of plants and flowers? "Yes, my siblings and I grew up in a pre-World War II rural residential environment, where there was room to have a variety of plants. In addition to fruit plants...

  • Hybridizer Nate Bremer

    1. Did your early life give you an introduction to the world of plants and flowers? "I grew up in a gardening family. We had large perennial gardens and a good sized vegetable garden, which I was tasked with keeping weeded as a youth. Mom...

  • Hybridizer Joshua Scholten

    Joshua Sholten is a 5th generation farmer, and a 4th generation flower farmer from Holland. Their family farms originally grew vegetables, then later flowers (including tulips, irises, and peonies at times). Joshua, along with his father and brother...