Sarah Bernhardt Peony
Paeonia lactiflora ‘Sarah Bernhardt’
Height: 3′; spread: 3′
Zone: 2
Full Sun
Original price was: $26.$22.10Current price is: $22.10.
A garden classic! Sarah Bernhardt Peony is a timeless favorite known for its huge, generously ruffled, double pink blooms with delicate hints of blush and golden centers. Blooming in early to mid-summer, these heavily fragrant flowers fill the air with their sweet, romantic scent. Set atop lush, dark green foliage, this peony makes a stunning accent, mass planting, or border, drawing admiration from all who see it. Butterflies love it while deer and rabbits tend to stay away. Drought-tolerant, but prefers a moist, well-drained soil.
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.