Souvenir de Ingo Schiewe (2 year graft)

Souvenir de Ingo Schiewe.  Tetzlaff.  2009.  Suffruticosa with P. rockii influence hybrid.  Selected by Stephan Tetzlaff from a collection at the Botanical Garden of Düsseldorf (Germany), where it was marked as a suffruticosa.  Growth habit is of a typical rockii cultivar, woody and large-stemmed.  Mature plants may attain heights of 5 or more feet and 10 feet in width.  Very floriferous.  Flowers are single and about 6 inches in diameter.  Color is an outstanding, clear lavender with purple-black flares at the bases of the petals (typical of rockii cultivars).  Carpels are smooth and 5 in number.  Stigmas are light yellow, cream sheath, and yellow filaments with reddish bases.  Seed fertility, but no pollen.  Named in honor of Ingo Schiewe, who passed away in 2008.  Mr. Schiewe was a gardener with wide interests, who, besides his Rockii hybrid cultivars, grew many different plants in his garden and glasshouses.  A slow plant to get started, but after a couple of years grows quickly, displaying its outstanding flowers to perfection.  Ships in late September to mid-October. These are 2 year old grafted plants.  While plants are relatively small, they have youthful vigor and make wonderful additions to the garden.  Plant and grow them as you would older woody peonies.