Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Saunders
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1949
Cultivar Group (Type): Herbaceous Hybrid
Season of bloom: Very Early (week 1)
Early (week 2)
Flower Color: White
Pink
Flower color description: Creamy buff. Ivory-white to apricot-yellow with prominently present lavender flares at the base of the flower petals. No sidebuds.
Flower size: Medium

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Plant Height: 24 to 36 inches (60-90 cm)
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Crowns
Pollinators: Various insects
Awards and Recognitions: RHS AGM
Parentage: P. lactiflora X ((P. macrophylla x P. mlokosewitschii) x P. officinalis)

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Garden Peony

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Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2019-06-09
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2016-05-19
"Paeonia 'Athena', 2016, (1-SL-W) Hybrid [Peony], pay-OHN-ee-uh H

Date: 2023-05-10
Location: My garden in Ontario, Canada
Date: 2023-05-25
Photo by magnolialover
Location: W E Upjohn Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor
Date: 2023-05-14
If you're curious, those yellow-green 'droppings' are oak tree bl
Location: W E Upjohn Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor
Date: 2023-05-14
One of the prettiest of the very early-blooming herbaceous peonie
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-05-13
"Paeonia 'Athena', 2017, (1-SL-W) Hybrid [Peony], pay-OHN-ee-uh H
Photo by NMay
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-09-13
Location: Poland. In my garden.
Date: 2014-05-20
Photo by NMay
Photo by Minyatur

Date: 2016-04-13
Location: New York Botanical Gardens Bronx NY
Date: May 2015
Location: From my  garden. Poland.
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2016-05-19
"Paeonia 'Athena', 2016, (1-SL-W) Hybrid [Peony], pay-OHN-ee-uh H
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-09-13
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania USA
Date: 2018-05-09
First bloom on a first year plant from Adelman Peony Gardens
Photo by NMay
Location: From my  garden. Poland.
Photo by frankrichards16
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2018-05-13
"Paeonia 'Athena', 2018 photo, (1-SL-W) quadruple Hybrid Peony, (
Photo by NMay

Date: 2014-01-23
Photo courtesy of: John
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2018-05-31
Photo by CarolineScott
Location: Poland. In my garden.
Date: 2014-05-20
Photo by kousa

Courtesy Peony Paradise
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Photo by LizinElizabeth
Photo by frankrichards16
Location: My Gardens
Date: October 6, 2017
Prior To Planting

Date: 4000-02-21
Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2018-05-13
"Paeonia 'Athena', 2018 photo, (1-SL-W) quadruple Hybrid Peony, (
Location: Main Botanical Garden at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow
Date: May
credit: Andrey Korzun
Photo by magnolialover
Photo by frankrichards16

Date: 2020-09-20
Photo by boojum

Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms
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Comments:
  • Posted by frankrichards16 (Clinton, Michigan - Zone 5b) on Mar 24, 2018 9:37 AM concerning plant:
    Paeonia 'Athena' (Saunders, 1949) is an extra early blooming quadruple hybrid, a hybrid composed of four different peony species: lactiflora, officinalis, macrophylla and mlokosewitschi.  An ivory-white single with raspberry flares. Gold stamens and bright green carpels with rosy pink tips. No sidebuds. Professor A.P. Saunders (1869-1953) is commonly known as the father of inter-species herbaceous hybrid peonies. He introduced around 300 hybrid peonies with the median distribution occurring in 1941.

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