Peony, Itoh First Arrival

First Arrival Itoh Peony marks the beginning of peony season with an early, generous bloom display that captures everything gardeners love about this classic flower—lush, multi-petaled blooms on sturdy stems that don’t need staking, repeated over a long spring season. Itoh peonies represent the best of both worlds, combining the gorgeous blooms of tree peonies with the hardiness and ease of herbaceous peonies, and First Arrival delivers on that promise with exceptional vigor and reliable return. Growing three to five feet tall and wide, it forms a full, rounded mound of elegant divided foliage that remains handsome long after the flowers have finished. It is completely deer and rabbit resistant, which is not always true of spring perennials, and it performs well in the challenging root zone of black walnut trees. Long-lived and deeply unfussy once established, it simply asks for full sun and well-drained soil to perform at its best year after year. A once-in-a-generation planting that only gets better with age.