Dinner Plate – 30 Roots
The statement peony: enormous flowers, beautiful shell-pink color, and valuable late-season production.
There are peonies that fill out a bouquet—and there are peonies that can become the bouquet.
Dinner Plate is the latter.
True to its name, Dinner Plate produces extraordinarily large, fully double flowers in a sophisticated shell pink with soft salmon undertones. As the flowers open, the color softens toward a beautiful pastel pink, creating the oversized, romantic flower form that high-end floral designers love.
For a cut-flower grower, however, Dinner Plate offers something even more valuable than size:
It extends the season.
Dinner Plate flowers late, giving growers the opportunity to keep harvesting premium pink peonies after many earlier cultivars have finished. For farms selling directly to florists, wedding designers and specialty wholesalers, extending the peony window can be every bit as valuable as adding another color.
The plant itself is a robust, strong grower with substantial stems capable of carrying its immense flowers. When Dinner Plate was registered by Carl G. Klehm in 1968, it was described as having the largest flowers of any variety then under observation. Just five years later, Dinner Plate was named Grand Champion at the 1973 American Peony Society National Exhibition.
More than fifty years later, it remains relevant to commercial cut-flower production.
And that's exactly why we like it.
Dinner Plate isn't simply an old variety with an impressive pedigree. It produces a flower that still looks extraordinary in a modern floral-design market.
Why we recommend Dinner Plate for cut-flower growers:
- Exceptionally large, fully double flowers with immediate visual impact
- Sophisticated shell-pink color with subtle salmon tones
- Flowers soften toward beautiful pastel pink as they open
- Late bloom extends the commercial peony harvest
- Robust, vigorous plants with strong stems
- Excellent statement flower for wedding and event design
- A single open bloom can command attention in an arrangement
- 1973 American Peony Society National Exhibition Grand Champion
- A proven cultivar that remains relevant more than 50 years after introduction
- Particularly valuable for growers building a diversified harvest window
30 large 3–5 eye divisions.
Plant Dinner Plate when you want to give your floral customers something they simply can't overlook.
Thirty mature plants create a meaningful block of late-season, oversized premium pink peonies—giving a small grower the opportunity to keep selling after earlier varieties are finished while offering designers a flower with enough scale and presence to become the focal point of their work.
Dinner Plate doesn't need to compete for attention. It creates it.
