Hollingsworth, 2012
‘Nelda’s Joy’ is a rare and highly distinctive early-blooming hybrid peony, recognized with an APS Seedling Certificate of Merit in 2011 and admired for both its landscape qualities and breeding potential. The bloom on young plants often present as semi-double progressing to a rich double, full flower. Subtle salmon tones at the petal bases add warmth to the coloration, while sturdy stems and compact foliage provide excellent garden structure. Vigorous, freely flowering, and fertile in both directions, this cultivar was named to honor Nelda Roth, grandmother of Hollingsworth Peonies’ production manager, Lucas Hudson.
Group: Herbaceous Hybrid
Flower form: Semi double / double
Height: 60-90 cm
Fragrance: None
Sidebuds: None
Staking: Not Required
Bloom Date: Week: 3 (early)
Country of Origin: USA
Parentage: Salmon Dream x Pink Vanguard
Nelda's Joy
Our promise is to provide you with healthily grown root divisions, with 3-5 eyes, and true to name. We take great care in packaging your roots so they arrive in perfect planting condition. If for any reason, during shipping, your package is not to your satisfaction, please send a photo within 48 hours, and we will either replace your order or refund you.
Since planting conditions, and other variables are outside of our control, we cannot guarantee roots once they have been planted.
Observations of height, side buds, and staking are from Hudson, Quebec (zone 5a) grown in full sun, in a clay based soil. In different environments plants will perform slightly different. Instead of 1 to 2 side buds per stem, you may have none. If growing in slightly shadier environment, your peony may require staking. The observations are meant as a general guide, in how your peony should perform in optimal planting. In the case of fragrance, these are observations based on personal sniff tests in the field, we must bear in mind our olfactory senses are all different.
