Just a friendly heads up. This is really a message to anyone who might be hoping to view this cultivar in the Peony Garden in Ann Arbor. Based on my own extensive study of the current collection, both in person and via the bed maps provided annually for the period 2015-2019, this cultivar, Best Man, is no longer in the collection, and hasn't been in it since some time before 2015. There has been an extensive reworking of parts of the collection beginning after the 2014 growing season, and it is still underway. It may be that the plants of Best Man were lost at that time, or they may have succumbed to disease. There's no entry for Best Man in the MBGNA database (which doesn't necessarily mean it was never in the collection, since the database is notorious out of date). - Elizabeth

Thanks for the info, Elizabeth. Would you be able to add this as a general comment on the plant entry? That way it'll be more visible than being under this particular photo.

I agree with Baja, it would be great if you could place this in the comment section at the bottom of the page for Peony (Paeonia lactiflora 'Best Man') At bottom left, under the section that says Adding Actions
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