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Originator/Registrant: Roger F. Anderson
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1986
Cultivar Group (Type): Intersectional (Itoh) Hybrid
Season of bloom: Late Midseason (week 5)
Flower Form: Semi-Double
Full Double
Flower Color: Yellow
Flower color description: Large full double yellow ball with red flares.
Flower size: 6 to 8 inches
Needs support: No
Awards: Gold Medal: 2006
Award of Landscape Merit: 2009

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 2 -45.6 °C (-50 °F) to -42.8 °C (-45°F)
Plant Height: 30 inches
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Crowns
Awards and Recognitions: RHS AGM
Other: APS Gold '06 ALM '09
Parentage: White lactiflora double x Reath hybrid tree
Child plants: one child plant

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Common names
  • Intersectional Peony
  • Itoh Peony
  • Peony
Also sold as:
  • Batazella

Photo Gallery
Location: Coralville garden
Date: 2023-05-27
KODAK Digital Still Camera
Location: Louisville KY
Date: 2023-05-11
In full bloom…as good as it gets.
Location: Van Buren, MO
Date: 2023-05-09
Bought this winter as dormant plant.

Date: 2015-05-13
Location: Scarborough, ON
Date: 2021-06-09
Love this peony!
Location: Louisville KY
Date: 2023-05-09
About 8” diameter. My experience with Itoh intersectional peoni
Location: Home garden
Date: May 26, 2021
By KYgal
Location: Home garden
Date: May 26, 2021
By KYgal
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2015-06-01
"Paeonia x (Itoh) 'Bartzella', 2015, [Peony] (3-SD-Y) Itoh Hybrid
Location: Carleton Place, Ontario Canada
Date: 2017-06-19
  • Uploaded by Ina
Location: Boardman, Ohio
Location: Southern Ontario
Date: 2010-06-09
Location: Fairfax, VA
Location: Virginia
Date: 2018-05-12
Uploaded by NMay
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Date: 2019-05-28
Location: Fairfax, VA
Uploaded by NMay
Uploaded by littlebin
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2015-06-01
"Paeonia x (Itoh) 'Bartzella', 2015, [Peony] (3-SD-Y) Itoh Hybrid
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2015-06-01
"Paeonia x (Itoh) 'Bartzella', 2015, [Peony] (3-SD-Y) Itoh Hybrid

Date: 2010-06-10
Granby
Uploaded by bearsearch
Location: Millinocket, Maine
Date: 2022-06-14
Nine-year-old Bartzella flanked by White Wings Peonies
Uploaded by kousa
Location: Fairfax, VA | May, 2023
Date: 2023-05-08
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2023-05-25
Intersectional Peony (Paeonia 'Bartzella').
Location: springfield MO
Date: 2015-05-18
Uploaded by kousa
Location: My garden, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: 2016-05-29
Location: Brooks Gardens
Date: 2014
Bartzella peony blossom.

Date: 2012-04-24
Location: Virginia
Date: 2018-05-12
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2023-06-15
Intersectional Peony (Paeonia 'Bartzella').

Courtesy Peony Paradise
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: Maine
Date: 2012
planted 2009, waited 3 years to get this!
Uploaded by gemini_sage
Location: Adelman's Peony Garden, Salem, OR
Date: 2017-05-22
Full sun, 91 degrees F 32.7 degrees C
Uploaded by Minyatur
Location: Garden next to Smithsonian, DC, Virginia | May, 2022
Date: 2022-05-28
Uploaded by Mammalfeathers

Photo Courtesy of Nate Bremer at Solaris Farms. Used with Permiss
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Location: Lily fence - full sun
Date: 2012-1003
Growth since planting (bareroot) 5/5/12.

Date: 2015-06-15
Granby

Date: 2015-06-15
Granby

Date: 2010-06-10
Granby
Location: SE Michigan
Date: 2018-06-07
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2018-05-31
"Paeonia 'Bartzella', 2018 photo, (3-SD-Y) Itoh Hybrid Peony, (An
Uploaded by philljm
Location: Akron, OH
Date: 2015-05-03
Location: Arboretum w Ellerhoop-Thiensen, Germany.
Date: 2012-06-26
Location: Arboretum w Ellerhoop-Thiensen, Germany.
Date: 2012-06-26
Location: Back Yard
Date: 2016-05-28
Prolific blooming plant form The Growing Place, needs room
Location: 382 River Road, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: May 26, 2015
Paeonia 'Bartzella' (intersectional peony)
Uploaded by Cem9165
Uploaded by Mikey
Uploaded by gemini_sage
Location: Adelman's Peony Garden, Salem, OR
Date: 2017-05-22
flower show
Location: garden of botanist Robert R. Kowal in Madison, Wisconsin
Date: 2013-06-17
Photo courtesy of: James Steakley

Date: 2015-05-24
Photo courtesy of: Markus U
Uploaded by sgardener
Location: southeast Ohio
Date: 2017-05-13
Location: My garden, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: 2016-05-29
Uploaded by bearsearch
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2018-05-31
"Paeonia 'Bartzella', 2018 photo, (3-SD-Y) Itoh Hybrid Peony, (An
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2018-05-31
"Paeonia 'Bartzella', 2018 photo, (3-SD-Y) Itoh Hybrid Peony, (An

Date: 2012-04-24
Location: Akron, OH
Date: 2015-05-31
Location: Arboretum w Ellerhoop-Thiensen, Germany.
Date: 2012-06-26

Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo courtesy of Brooks Gardens Peonies. Used with permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo courtesy of Brooks Gardens Peonies. Used with permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo courtesy of Longfield Gardens
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Comments:
  • Posted by valleyrimgirl on Dec 13, 2012 9:45 PM concerning plant:
    Hybridizer: Roger Anderson, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, USA
    Year: 1986
    Parentage: white lactiflora double x Reath hybrid tree.
    Description: Bartzella has large 6-8" full double yellow blooms with red flares and white stigmas at center and a few sidebuds that extend flowering. Strong 32" stems hold the flowers on top of the plant. Each mature Bartzella can have more than 60 flowers, blooming from two to four weeks. No seed or pollen. Lemon scented fragrance.
    Additional Awards: Grand Champion flower 2002 American Peony Society Exhibition at Madison, Wisconsin.
    Origin of the name: "The name Bartzella originated in part from the family Pastor, whos last name was Barts. My wife was the one responsable for adding the ella. She seem to think it soften the Barts. It has work very well.“ (Roger Anderson, March 25 2001 on yahoo-groups [peony])
  • Posted by frankrichards16 (Clinton, Michigan - Zone 5b) on Mar 25, 2018 9:04 AM concerning plant:
    Peony 'Bartzella' (Roger F. Anderson, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, 1986) is an intersectional or Itoh hybrid. In this case a white lactiflora double crossed with a Reath hybrid tree peony. A good sized plant at almost 3 feet tall with double, fragrant, 6-8", lemon yellow flowers with red flares and white-tipped carpels. Dark green foliage with large deeply cut leaves. Awarded the APS Gold Metal 2006. One of the most popular Itoh hybrids.
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