Festiva Maxima Peony
Paeonia lactiflora ‘Festiva Maxima’
Height: 2′; spread: 3′
Zone: 2
Full Sun
Original price was: $26.$22.10Current price is: $22.10.
A breathtaking combination of elegance and old-world charm. This early-season stunner produces huge, fully double white blooms whose silky petals are highlighted with delicate crimson streaks near the center. The flower’s heavenly fragrance delights your senses. Use Festiva Maxima to make a bold statement as an accent, in a mass planting, or as a border feature. For those who love cut flowers, this is a grand addition to your garden. Performs best in moist, well-drained soil, but is also remarkably drought-tolerant once established. A true classic, perfect for creating a dreamy, romantic landscape that returns year after year!
Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:
These truly xeric plants can live with our 12 inches of natural annual precipitation and only need a winter watering during a multi-year drought, but they will thrive with a monthly watering. Overwatering will kill some of these. These plants are adapted to intermittent deep
watering with soil drying to a depth of a few inches between waterings. Watering frequency may be every couple of weeks during the active growing season and maybe only one winter watering for optimal care. These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that
they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season, and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant
death. About sizes of our plants:
Sizes indicated with a # are roughly the equivalent in gallonage; so a #2 is about a 2 gallon pot size; b&b stands for balled and burlapped.