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HPS Fall Auction and Pot luck meal Friday |
This is our annual auction of special peonies that are generally not available in the market anywhere. This event is only open to HPS membership. If you are not a member you can join here. The cost is only $5.00 for a family membership. This event will be held this year in the north portion of Kansas City. Check your HPS Newsletter for suggestions on a side dish or desert to bring and for the location and time. |
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The year of the intersectional
peony Saturday |
Saturday October 1st Sale 10am to 3pm Metcalf South Shopping Center, 95th & Metcalf, Overland Park, Kansas Follow the signs This October will see a return of HPS' biennial peony plant sale. Your board of directors and plant sale committee are busy putting together a list of desirable plants and placing orders. Two years ago we had a few of the new Intersectional Hybrid peonies available for the sale. These are, or were, exotic hybrids between tree and herbaceous peonies. They often have the flower form, foliage and characteristics of tree peonies, but the deciduous stems and hardiness of herbaceous peonies. Really the best of both types. Two of the most famous Intersectional Peonies are 'Garden Treasure' from our own Don Hollingsworth and "Bartzella'. These are among the best of all yellow peonies. As mentioned earlier these 'were' exotic hybrids Because two years ago we only had a couple plants in our sale and we struggled to keep prices below $100 each. Many have been introduced at $250 each and higher. This year things have changed - a lot. Many more varieties have been introduced in a boggling range of colors and combinations. Although the newest remain expensive, many are coming within a reasonable price range comparable to the better garden peonies. So, although we still do not have details of the sale finalized, we hope to have more than 10 different named intersectional peonies varieties available at our sale. All will be under $100 each and most well under $50 each. If you have been wishing for a big double yellow peony, start saving your pennies for a chance to buy one of these beauties. Among our new additions will be a few just named and registered from the new hybridizer Don Smith including plants with blended flowers of peach and rose, yellow, pink, red and much more. We hope to post some of these on our web site well before the sale so you can try to make shopping plans ahead of the sale. Some of these will be so new, you will want to research them a bit too. This is an exciting new world
of garden peonies and HPS is excited to bring these to our sale. Our fall
sale will surely highlight The Year of the Intersectional Peony. Check your HPS newsletter for additional information
Below is a list of peony cultivars that will be in the fall sale
INTERSECTIONAL PEONIES
HERBACEOUS PEONIES
SPECIES PEONIES
TREE PEONIES |