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Itoh peonies: from Japan to the world

Itoh peonies, a hybrid combining the hardiness and habit of herbaceous peonies with the colour range, flower size and extended flowering period of the tree peonies, are a relative newcomer to the prairies. Initially not thought to be hardy, several climate-zone deniers in Saskatoon and elsewhere on the prairies have shown again that plants, not labels, are the best arbiters of what is truly hardy.

The story of their development is one of persistence and tenaciousness on the part of their first breeder, Dr. Toichi Itoh (pronouced Ee-toe), a Japanese nurseryman and plant breeder. His goal: to create a pure yellow herbaceous peony. Dr. Itoh pollinated more than 1,200 peony plants before obtaining 36 seedlings in 1948 when he successfully crossed the yellow hybrid tree peony, Alice Harding, with a double-flowered, white herbaceous peony, Kakoden.

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