Peony help

LG_

I need to find a peony. I don't have a photo except in my mind's eye but you will all have seen it. I'm hoping some if you may even have it.

It's what was just called 'a peony' when I was a kid - there was one in every suburban front garden, and I don't remember there being any other kind. I'm sure for plantspeople there were plenty, but for most, this was the definition of peony. Deep, deep pink flowers, double-ish, with fat buds. Recognise it?

I moved one from my childhood garden when we sold the house, but the squirrels dug it up and chewed it and it didn't survive their repeated mailings. I now need to buy one for my sister, but it has to be the one. What's it called? 

Rubra plena is the closest I can find online, but I'm not completely sure. Does anyone know what I'm banging on about, and can you help? If you think you have it in your garden, could you take a photo or two? Especially of a bud with the colour starting to show. 

punkdoc

I know the one you mean, I loved it, but looking at pictures, I am not sure Rubra plena is the one in my mind.
How are you doing @LG_ ?

Silver surfer

Have you searched Google using the Latin name Paeonia.
thousands of pics.
See....


https://www.google.com/search?q=paeonia+deep+pink+double+flowers&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiE_M2b3aHpAhULEcAKHZ93BmQQ_AUoAXoECBMQAw&biw=1920&bih=944

Greenbird

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LG_

Oh yes, believe me, I've done so much searching! The annoying part is that I tried to find it a few years ago and deep in the recesses of the web, in an article specifically about that sort of 50s nostalgic memory... it was definitely the one... but can I find it again? Can I heck! The problem with trawling through photos on Google is that quite a few look quite like it, but are not definitely it. 

Glad you know which one I mean, @punkdoc. I'm doing OK, thanks. Still in denial about what has happened, largely.

LG_

@Greenbird is that in your garden? It's lovely, and close, but I don't think it's right. Those leaves look quite dark, and my memorypeony's leaves stayed green, I think.

Silver surfer

1970's Paeonia

https://www.google.com/search?q=1970+double+red+paeonia&client=firefox-b-d&hl=en-US&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjpcvB46HpAhUZE8AKHUYaAmMQ_AUoAnoECAsQBA&biw=1920&bih=937


1970's Peony.

https://www.google.com/search?q=1970+double+red+peony&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjI6Lqk46HpAhWJgVwKHV3ODWMQ_AUoAXoECAwQAw&biw=1920&bih=944

Greenbird

Not mine unfortunately, though I've got this variety on order.

LG_

I've just found this photo on a Facebook thread where people are talking about peonies that eg: were in their gardens when they 'moved in in 1959', or are 'in my mum's garden' etc. Just the bud, but it looks right.

LG_

I may have a lead. I spotted some likely looking ones in a photo on a local-ish Facebook group and contacted the person who took it. They're in her parents' front garden and have been for years (they always have). They don't know the cultivar either (no one ever does) but I'm hoping if I can get a good set of photos then I'm a step closer.

B3

This is a bog standard old fashioned peony I have



Any good?