Hope
Distinguished from ‘Honor’ by stigma color. Beautiful cheery, cherry pink flowers but I am disappointed in the plant habit. The foliage is noticeably lighter than in most peonies. Provide it support.
One vendor sells ‘Hope’ under the wrong name of ‘Good Will’.
| Cultivar: | Hope |
| Year: | 1929 |
| Seedling No: | 1479. Page 158 of Saunders’ Notebook I |
| Parentage: | 8A: ‘Otto Froebel’ X lactiflora |
| Flower: | Color: | bright pink, virtually same as ‘Honor’ leading to confusion |
| Form: | semi-double, 2 rows of petals but larger, more crinkled | |
| Blooms: | Week 4 | |
| Carpels: | light green | |
| Stigmas: | light pink | |
| Disc: | white | |
| Stamens: | filaments rosy yellow | |
| Plant: | Habit: | spreading, even sprawling, especially as the season progresses |
| Foliage color: | light green | |
| Foliage form: | relatively fine, leaflets are not lobed | |
| Height: | 28″ in 2021 | |
| Recommendation: | Collector’s plant |
| Availability: | Few specialty nurseries |
