Peony – Duchesse de Nemours (Double White) (Gallon pot)

Description

Duchesse de Nemours is an exquisite, professional quality creamy white double-flowered peony. Flowers are just spilling over with fluffy petals.

Duchess peonies are an heirloom variety, introduced over 150 years ago, and winner of the RHS Award of Garden Merit in 1993.

Zone 3-8. Peonies like it cold – I am planting them using white-colored weed fabric to keep the soil cooler rather than warmer in the spring.

Duchess blooms late spring to early summer with fragrant blooms. Height: 35-36 inches tall

Peonies are hearty and quite easy to grow – once they get established, they come back year after year, maturing into dependable sources of opulent flowery abundance and great cut flowers. Full Sun (6+ hours will provide best flowering) but they will still bloom in Part Shade. Deer and Ground Hog resistant. Peonies will go dormant in late summer, simply remove old stalks in September. Bees do enjoy peony flowers.

Best grown in well drained soil with good fertility. Providing support especially with heavy rain is a good practice.