Peony Apples of the Hesperides

Peony Apples of the Hesperides is an early semi-double to double Purple Peony Herbaceous Hybrid, up-facing, purple semi-double to double flowers, flower size 6 inch / 15 cm, flower bud 1.2 inch / 3 cm, has average 3 very hairy green carpels with normal shaped pink stigmas, has pollen and set seeds. 1 flower per stem, Vigorous grower, upright growth habit, lots of flowers, healthy green foliage, broad pointed leaves, average height 37.4 inch / 95 cm, first year bloomed 2012, first year propagated 2014, good potential for cut-flower production. (Joshua Scholten - Peony Shop Holland, Lutjebroek, The Netherlands, 2022).

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Apples of the Hesperides

'Apples of the Hesperides' is one of the twelve labours of Hercules

Originator: Joshua Scholten | Peony Shop Holland
Group: Hybrid
Introduction Year: 2022
Country: Netherlands
Height: 37.4"
Bare root size: 3/5 eye
Size Weight
3/5 eye 250 gram
Perennial Box Size (standard) = 24" x 16" x 9" or, 60cm x 40cm x 23cm

Sold Out! Available in years: 2025, 2026


Peony Apples of the Hesperides is one of the many special purple Peonies from our own breeding lines that we grow at Peony Nursery 'Peony Shop Holland'.

About peony nursery "Peonyshop.com" Peony Shop Holland Lutjebroek

Peony Growers Peony Shop Holland peonyshop.com at this time only centers on building exceptional, exceptional good peonies. It hasn't always been this situation. This specific firm carries an broad back ground starting up in 1875 with Simon Scholten that was growing veggies and fruit for her full time income.

During the year 2001 this specific company created their unique new advertising-name & logo "Peonyshop.com" and after that they started concentrating on developing exclusive peonies. In the year 2002 this business opened up their very own online peonyshop.com with Peonies & Buxus. In 2003 Joshua Scholten began with breeding peonies. After that in year 2004 this organization started to export peonies from the Netherlands all around European countries, America and even Asia.

Currently our peony nursery is specialized in expanding and increasing the number of exceptional, top quality peony roots that are offered for sale and released world wide. Furthermore the company additionally cut peonies mainly helping the Dutch peony flower market.

The most important things we pride:
  • The premium quality of our own products
  • Our ability to export international
  • All of our broad assortment of purple peonies like Apples Of The Hesperides
  • Our Nursery of large potential purple peonies for cut-flower production and garden.

About Apples Of The Hesperides a purple peony

The fall is truly the correct period for growing peony plants. Pretty much all peonies tend to be incredibly long-term-lived plants functioning for approximately fifty up to seventy years, so soon after you have the peonies placed correctly, a person will certainly benefit from them for many years. The plants have a preference for a bright area having a well-drained dirt. A good air flow circulation presented around the peonies can also be significant. These kind of circumstances allow these plants to prevent disease problems. To prepare the planting hole meant for a bare-root peony plant, dig the dirt to the level of 12-18inches. Make use of a garden fork to release the sides of the planting hole at the same time. It is very extremely important and vital that the particular "eyes", or growing nodes, situated nearby the bottom of the old stem, end up no more than Two " under the soil surface.