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Paeonia (Itoh) Cora Luise

White-pink peony with a lavender-purple centre of the flower.
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Flower Color:
White
Product Code:
T137
Supplied as:
bare roots

Availability: In stock

€13.99
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Peony ‘Cora Luise’ is a beautiful cultivar with white pink petals, which are lavender purple in the middle of the flower. Like all Itoh cultivars, Cora Louise is a cross between herbaceous and tree peonies, with top marks for vigor and strength. Once mature, it will produce up to 50 flowers in a season. The flowers are about 20 cm in size, fragrant. Requires a sunny place with humus-rich soil. Ideal for the perennial flowerbed.

How to grow Itoh peonies

Also called intersectional peonies, Itoh peonies are attractive and easy to grow perennials. Plant Itoh peonies in rich, well-drained soil. Itoh peonies prefer full sun, but will grow in a situation that has some shade for a part of the day. Itoh peonies are sensitive to high levels of nitrogen. When fertilizing Itoh peonies in the spring and summer, be sure to use a fertilizer that contains a low level of nitrogen. Do not fertilize Itoh peonies from late summer to fall. When planting Itoh peonies, the buds needs to be placed in the ground with the red eyes (leaf buds) no more than 5 cm below the soil surface. 

Peonies have decorated European gardens for centuries. Popular species are herbaceous peonies with fully pink, red or white blooms, which come from China and have bigger flowers.

The peculiarity of tree peonies is that the flowers are very large and outstanding, with yellow cultivars also available. Breeders had been trying to cross herbaceous, resistant peonies with more sensitive tree peonies for a long time, aiming to obtain a peony that would have the beautiful flowers of tree peonies and the vigorous growth rate and resistance of herbaceous peonies. Unfortunately, herbaceous and tree peonies are very distant relatives, so they have not been successfully crossed for centuries. This was achieved only in 1948 by the Japanese grower Toichi Itoh. After an enormous effort in which he made about 20,000 crosses, he obtained about 36 plants, 6 of which had yellow flowers. In 1960, these plants were discovered by Louis Smirnow and imported to the United States. The succession of other "Itoh" cultivars with beautiful, large, fragrant flowers and the smooth growth of herbaceous peonies had begun.

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Additional Information
Cultivar Cora Louise
Scientific Name Peony Intersectional - Itoh
Category Perennials
Flower Color White
Supplied as bare roots
Flower Fragrance Yes
Bloom Time Summer
Leaf Color Green
Plant Size 75 cm
Width 90 cm
Moisture demands Medium
Trvalky podkategoria Pivónie
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