Peony Old Soldier
Peony Old Soldier is an Early-Midseason semi-double medium red Peony Herbaceous Hybrid, Has had distribution under both seedling number and name. Large, Flower size up to 7 inches / 18 cm. Has 2-3 side buds. Flowers fade to a pink-red as they age. Light green carpels (3-5 in number), pink stigmas and yellow filaments. Foliage is deep green and broad, carried on thick heavy stems that do not require staking. Average height 28 to 32 inch / 71-81 cm. Plants go dormant at the end of September. A fast growing plant that is highly fertile both ways and produces some of the largest seed we have seen in herbaceous hybrids. Presumed tetraploid. Very good double seedlings of bright pink coloration from this plant are under observation. Week 3-4 bloom time. First bloomed mid 1970’s, propagated since early 2000’s. no. #74H120-6. Parentage: ['Blushing Princess’ x Pehrson’s unnamed Sable-Eclipse hybrid.](Bremer / Seidl, 2016, USA, WI).
Bare root size: 3/5 eye 
28-32"
Quantity per standard box: 
Peony Old Soldier is one of the many red Peonies that we grow at Peony Shop Holland
About peony nursery "Peonyshop.com" Peony Shop Holland Lutjebroek
Peony Growers Peony Shop Holland peonyshop.com at this time only centers on building exceptional, exceptional good peonies. It hasn't always been this situation. This specific firm carries an broad back ground starting up in 1875 with Simon Scholten that was growing veggies and fruit for her full time income.
During the year 2001 this specific company created their unique new advertising-name & logo "Peonyshop.com" and after that they started concentrating on developing exclusive peonies. In the year 2002 this business opened up their very own online peonyshop.com with Peonies & Buxus. In 2003 Joshua Scholten began with breeding peonies. After that in year 2004 this organization started to export peonies from the Netherlands all around European countries, America and even Asia.
Currently our peony nursery is specialized in expanding and increasing the number of exceptional, top quality peony roots that are offered for sale and released world wide. Furthermore the company additionally cut peonies mainly helping the Dutch peony flower market.
The most important things we pride:- The premium quality of our own products
- Our ability to export international
- Our broad assortment of red peonies like Old Soldier
- Our Nursery stock of large potential red peonies for cut-flower production and garden.
About Old Soldier a beautifully red peony
The fall is truly the correct period for growing peony plants. Pretty much all peonies tend to be incredibly long-term-lived plants functioning for approximately fifty up to seventy years, so soon after you have the peonies placed correctly, a person will certainly benefit from them for many years. The plants have a preference for a bright area having a well-drained dirt. A good air flow circulation presented around the peonies can also be significant. These kind of circumstances allow these plants to prevent disease problems. To prepare the planting hole meant for a bare-root peony plant, dig the dirt to the level of 12-18inches. Make use of a garden fork to release the sides of the planting hole at the same time. It is very extremely important and vital that the particular "eyes", or growing nodes, situated nearby the bottom of the old stem, end up no more than Two " under the soil surface.
