Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Kelway
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1902
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Midseason (week 4)
Flower Form: Full Double
Flower Color: Pink
Flower color description: Pale blush-pink, almost white, with yellow stamens mixed with a few irregular petals in the center. Lateral flowers, semi-double. In some seasons it is decidedly pink.
Flower size: Large
Needs support: No

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Pollinators: Various insects
Child plants: 2 child plants

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Common names
  • Garden Peony
  • Peony
  • Chinese Peony
Also sold as:
  • Alexandra Duff

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Location: Ann Arbor MI
Date: 06/09/2019
U of M Nichols Arboretum
Location: Ann Arbor MI
Date: 06/09/2019
U of M Nichols Arboretum
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2015-05-29
"Paeonia lactiflora 'Lady Alexandra Duff', 2015, [Peony] (3-DB-PK
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Date: 2007-06-01
Uploaded by frankrichards16

Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Willamette Valley Oregon
Date: 2014-05-23
Photo taken at Adelman Peony Gardens
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2015-05-29
"Paeonia lactiflora 'Lady Alexandra Duff', 2015, [Peony] (3-DB-PK
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear England UK 
Date: 2023-05-24
Paeonia lactiflora 'Lady Alexandra Duff'

Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo Courtesy of Crossview Gardens. Used with Permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: My garden, Tyne and Wear, England UK 
Date: 2024-05-11
Paeonia lactiflora 'Lady Alexandra Duff'

Date: 2007-01-30
Courtesy Peony Paradise
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2016-01-03
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Date: 2006-06-15
Location: Willamette Valley Oregon
Date: 2014-05-23
Photo taken at Adelman Peony Gardens
Location: Willamette Valley Oregon
Date: 2014-05-23
Photo taken at Adelman Peony Gardens
Location: garden of botanist Robert R. Kowal in Madison, Wisconsin
Date: 2013-06-09
Photo courtesy of: James Steakley
Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2017-06-24
Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2017-06-24
Lady Alexandra Duff opens a pale pink and fades to almost white a

Photo courtesy of Longfield Gardens
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo courtesy of Longfield Gardens
  • Uploaded by Joy
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Comments:
  • Posted by frankrichards16 (Clinton, Michigan - Zone 5b) on Apr 21, 2018 6:10 AM concerning plant:
    "Paeonia 'Lady Alexandra Duff', (3-DB-PK) lactiflora cultivar Peony, (Kelway, 1902), USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Medium height, large double, pale blush pink, side-buds, weak stems, slight fragrance, midseason bloomer , Michigan Bloom Month 5c-6.

    Has large guard petals giving the flowers a bomb type appearance. Flower clusters have small side flowers. Occasional stamens mixed with center petals. Not rain hardy."

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