Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Hoogendoorn
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1949
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Early (week 2)
Midseason (week 4)
Flower Form: Japanese
Flower Color: Pink
Flower color description: Guard petals fuchsine rose, staminodes pale lemon yellow
Flower size: 12 inches
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
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Plant Height: 3 feet (90 cm)
Plant Spread: 3 feet (90 cm)
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Propagation: Other methods: Other: When planting bare root, plant the "red eyes" or growing points no deeper than 2" deep. Peonies do not like to be moved, and may not bloom the same year that they are moved or planted.
Pollinators: Various insects

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Chinese Peony
  • Garden Peony

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Location: Athol, MA
Date: 2019-06-19
#pollination
Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2022-05-10
Bowl Of Beauty Peony 016
Location: Durham, NC
Date: 2020-04-29
Location: Eagle Bay, New York
Date: 2020-06-23
Bowl of Beauty

Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms

Date: 2015-05-28
Location: Newby Hall, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2018-06-15
Location: Estonia
Date: 2021-06-20
Location: Athol, MA
Date: 2018-06-14
Location: Ann Arbor MI
Date: 06/09/2019
U of M Nichols Arboretum
Location: Eagle Bay, New York
Date: 24 June 2021
Peony Bowl of Beauty
Location: Zone 6b/7a. 
Date: 2023-06-02
FFE, after years of waiting
Location: My Garden, Essex.UK.
Date: 2022-06-17

Date: 2021-04-09
Location: Athol, MA
Date: 2018-06-15

Date: 2015-05-15
Location: Home garden VA
Date: 2013-05-21
Location: Apple Valley MN
Date: 2019-06-20
#pollination
Location: Athol, MA
Date: 2017-06-17
This is the first flower of this, planted last fall. True to colo

Date: 2015-05-28

Date: 2015-05-28
Location: Philadelphia 
Date: 04/18/2022
Second year plant.
Location: My Garden
Date: 2013-06-29
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2022-06-14
Peony (Paeonia lactiflora 'Bowl of Beauty').
Location: Eagle Bay, New York
Date: 28 June 2021
Peony Bowl of Beauty
Location: Philadelphia 
Date: 05/13/2021
Location: Newby Hall, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2018-06-15
Location: My garden, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: 2016-05-29
Location: Athol, MA
Date: 2018-06-19
Mid June after losing her petals.

Date: 2012-06-12
Granby
Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2019-05-02
Peony - Bowl Of Beauty 023
Location: Athol, MA
Date: 2017-06-18
This is the first flower of this, planted last fall. True to colo
Location: Athol, MA
Date: 2018-06-13
Second season, June 2018
Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2019-06-27
Location: Philadelphia

Photo Courtesy of Homestead Farms Nursery. Used with Permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: southeast Ohio
Date: 2017-05-13
Location: Athol, MA
Date: 2018-05-04
Second season, May.
Location: Apple Valley MN
Date: 2018-06-19
Immature seed pod
Location: Eagle Bay, New York
Date: 2022-06-17
Peony (Paeonia lactiflora 'Bowl of Beauty') in bloom
Location: Athol, MA
Date: 2017-06-18
This is the first flower of this, planted last fall. True to colo
Location: My Garden
Date: 2013-06-29
Location: Home garden VA
Date: 2013-05-21
Location: Philadelphia 
Date: 2023-05-21
Year 3
Uploaded by frankrichards16
Location: Chailey Iris Gardens, East Sussex.UK.
Date: 2022-06-11
Uploaded by magga

Photo courtesy of: Tom Potterfield
Location: Athol, MA
Date: 2018-06-19
Location: Apple Valley MN
Date: 2018-06-10
Uploaded by Cem9165
Location: Athol, MA
Date: 2018-06-03
Growing buds in early June, zone 5b
Location: Middle TN
Location: Middle TN
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania 17565
Date: 2017-05-31
Location: Belmont garden
Date: 2011-0603
Backlit by the sun.
Uploaded by joannakat
Location: Back garden
Date: 2013-05-11
Location: In my garden. Poland.

Date: 2007-02-12
Courtesy Peony Paradise
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: Mid-America Gardens
Date: 2015-05-14
Location: Athol, MA
Date: 2018-05-23
Complete with ants!
Location: My garden, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: 2016-05-29
Location: Madrid, Spain | April, 2023
Date: 2023-04-08
Location: Athol, MA
Date: 2017-04-23
The first spring growth of a newly planted peony: Bowl of Beauty
Location: Athol, MA
Date: 2018-05-16
I've been told the greenery is usually darker. Second season.

Photo courtesy of Longfield Gardens
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo courtesy of Longfield Gardens
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Middle TN
Location: Belmont garden
Date: 2013-0608
Location: Belmont garden
Date: 2011-0603

Photo Courtesy of Crossview Gardens. Used with Permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo Courtesy of Garden Perennials. Used with Permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Aurora, On
Date: 2014-06-18
Attractive.
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Comments:
  • Posted by frankrichards16 (Clinton, Michigan - Zone 5b) on Mar 29, 2018 9:45 AM concerning plant:
    Paeonia 'Bowl of Beauty' (Hoogendoorn, Netherlands, 1949) is a 32" pink lactiflora cultivar. A Japanese type bloom, very fragrant, midseason. Guard petals are fuchsine rose, staminodes are pale lemon yellow (creamy). Sometimes rose petals are mixed in with the staminoides. Flowers can reach up to 12" in diameter. Hoogendoom registered a total of 7 peony cultivars, all in 1949.
  • Posted by SongofJoy (Clarksville, TN - Zone 6b) on Feb 20, 2012 3:02 PM concerning plant:
    This peony is deer-resistant, easy to grow, and provides a 3-4 week period of blooms. When done flowering, the lush, green foliage can serve as a backdrop for other perennials, hardy roses or annuals.

    Peonies look good in a row along a fence line to serve as a flowering border, and they make good cut flowers. Easy to grow and care for once established, they will grow for generations and become treasured inherited members of a garden.

    NOMENCLATURE: 'Paeonia' (Named in honor of Paeon, Physician of the Gods in Greek mythology) and 'lactiflora' (milk-like flowers, possibly referring to the ant-attracting nectar produced by peonies, or to the milky-white flower of the unselected species).
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