Princess Bride – 30 Roots
The bridal white: pure, fragrant, early, and almost purpose-built for the wedding market.
Some cultivar names require explanation.
Princess Bride does not.
This is a peony that practically sells its own story: large, pristine white flowers, romantic bomb-type form, beautiful fragrance and strong stems—all arriving toward the early end of the peony season.
For a cut-flower grower trying to build relationships with wedding florists and event designers, that's a compelling combination.
Princess Bride produces large, rounded white guard petals surrounding a looser mound of pure-white inner petals. The result is full and luxurious without looking heavy—a distinctly bridal flower that photographs beautifully and works naturally in bouquets, centerpieces and premium event work.
But we recommend Princess Bride for more than its appearance.
It gives a grower an early white.
White peonies are foundational to the wedding trade, and extending their availability across the harvest season can be extremely valuable. Princess Bride allows a diversified peony farm to begin offering a premium white while later cultivars are still developing.
The plants also have the characteristics we want in a commercial planting: good stem strength, vigorous growth and substantial flowers carried without the weakness that can make some oversized doubles difficult to handle.
Princess Bride was introduced by renowned American peony breeder Roy G. Klehm in 1988 and was line-bred from Bowl of Cream, one of the great classic white peonies. The breeding shows: Princess Bride combines exceptional white flower quality with a more compact, commercially useful plant.
And then there's the name.
When you're selling flowers, marketability matters. Put Princess Bride on an availability list sent to wedding florists and nobody has to wonder where it belongs.
Why we recommend Princess Bride for cut-flower growers:
- Pure-white bomb-type flowers made for bridal and wedding work
- Large, romantic blooms with excellent visual presence
- Beautiful fragrance
- Strong stems suited to commercial cutting
- Early flowering adds valuable white production toward the front of the peony season
- Line-bred from the legendary Bowl of Cream
- Vigorous commercial cut-flower cultivar
- A highly marketable name that resonates immediately with wedding customers
- Excellent complement to later white cultivars
- Particularly strong choice for growers developing florist and event-design accounts
30 large 3–5 eye divisions.
A thirty-plant block of Princess Bride gives a developing flower farm something exceptionally useful: a meaningful supply of premium white peonies precisely where white flowers have one of their strongest natural markets—the wedding trade.
Pair Princess Bride with later whites and you're doing more than collecting cultivars. You're building a white peony harvest program designed to serve professional floral customers over a longer season.
For a grower who wants to walk into a wedding florist with the right flower, at the right time, with a name they'll remember, Princess Bride is an easy introduction.
