Peony Don Richardson

Peony 'Don Richardson' is an Early Midseason Japanese red Peony Herbaceous Lactiflora, striking dark deep red guard petals nicely compliment the peek-a-boo gold staminodium, strong peony grower, average height of 36 inch / 91.5 cm, named for a boy who worked at Krekler Farms, (William H. Krekler, USA, 1975).

Bare root size: 3/5 eye
36"
Size Weight
3/5 eye 250 gram
Quantity per standard box:

Perennial Box Size (standard) = 24" x 16" x 9" or, 60cm x 40cm x 23cm

Sold Out! Available in years: 2025


Peony Don Richardson is one of the many Red Peonies that we grow at Peony Shop Holland'. Peony 'Don Richardson' is a Paeonia Lactiflora breed by William H Krekler, Somerville, Ohio and Whit-tier, Peony breeder William H Krekler [1900-2002] started breeding Peonies with the purchase of Peony seedlings. He registered his first Peony in 1955 and he grew 1300 Peony varieties until 1977. He sold his entire Peony plantation to Peony Nursery 'Charles Klehm and Son Nursery'. Krekler’s peonies were the result of human intervention.

About Peony Nursery "Peonyshop.com" Peony Shop Holland, Lutjebroek, the Netherlands

Peony Growers Peony Shop Holland peonyshop.com nowadays only centers at getting unique, high leading quality peonies. It has not always been this way. This organization comes with a wealthy back ground opening in the year 1875 with Simon Scholten who also had been growing veggies and fruit for a full time income.

During 2001 the business enterprise developed their unique new-found selling-title & brand "Peonyshop.com" and after that they started off centering on growing unique peonies. During the year 2002 this business launched their very own on-line peonyshop together with Peonies & Buxus. In the year 2003 Joshua Scholten started out with raising peonies. Than in year 2004 the firm started to export peonies originating from the Netherlands all over European countries, America and Asia.

Currently our own peony nursery is focused on improving and multiplying exceptional, high quality peony roots that happen to be distributed and exported to world-wide. Aside from that we additionally cut peonies largely serving the Dutch peony flower market place.

The main things we pride:
  • The superior quality of our product
  • The capability to export international
  • Our new wide-ranging assortment peonies like Don Richardson
  • The peony crame of substantial potential seedlings

About Don Richardson peony plants

The fall season is the perfect moment regarding seeding a peony plant. The peonies are usually incredibly long-lived plants lasting close to 50 up to 70 yrs, so soon after an individual get the particular peonies selected and planted in the right way, a person is going to enjoy them for years. These plants have a preference for a bright spot with a well-drained soil. A good air movement available the peony is important. These circumstances help peonies prevent sickness issues. To arrange the planting hole intended for a bare-root peony plant, dig the soil to some depth around 12-18inch. Use a garden fork to remove the sides of the particular planting hole as well. It is always pretty crucial that the "eye", or growing nodes, situated close to the bottom of the old stem, end up no greater than 2 " below the soil surface.