Paeonia Itoh ‘New Millennium’
Paeonia 'New Millennium' has coral pink flowers with cream streaks or flushes. Itohs are exciting crosses between tree and garden peonies.
Paeonia ‘New Millennium’ offers coral pink, semi-double blooms highlighted with flushes or streaks of cream running through the ruffled and notched petals all around yellow centres. Growth habit is 30 – 36 inches in height and spread. Itoh peonies are intersectional hybrids between tree peonies (P. suffruticosa) and garden peonies (P. lactiflora) making outstanding herbaceous perennials with huge flowers in many unusual colours. A mature plant can have over 50 blooms! The foliage is like a tree peony and emerges rich red, gradually turning green.
Common Name: Itoh Peony
Family: Paeoniaceae (The Peony Family)
Zone Hardiness: 3-9
Light: Full Sun Part Sun
Height: 2-4'
Width: 2-3'
Primary Bloom Colour: Pink
Secondary Bloom Colour: White/Cream
Class: Deciduous
Type: Perennial
Bloom Time: Late Spring
Soil Moisture: Average
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Fragrance: Yes
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Benefits: Butterflies
Deer Resistant: Yes
BC Native: No
Native Habitat: Meadows, scrub and rocky places.
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