Salmon Dream — 30 Root Grower Pack
Premium genetics for growers, hybridizers, and serious peony collections.
Salmon Dream is a rare opportunity for growers and hybridizers to establish a serious block of one of the most important salmon-colored breeding peonies in modern American hybridizing.
Introduced by David Reath from the cross Paula Fay × Moonrise, Salmon Dream is valued not only for its luminous pale salmon-pink flowers, but for the quality of the genetics behind them. It is fertile, produces both pollen and seed, sets seed readily, and has been used repeatedly in important breeding lines. For growers interested in future hybridizing work, Salmon Dream is not just another cultivar — it is proven breeding stock.
In the field, Salmon Dream is an early-blooming herbaceous hybrid with strong stems, attractive foliage, and distinctive semi-double flowers in a soft salmon-pink palette. It has enough refinement for high-end cut-flower work, while also carrying the kind of genetic depth that makes it especially interesting to collectors, breeders, and farms building a long-term peony program.
This 30-root grower pack is intended for serious planting blocks, propagation, and breeding work. At $30 per root, it represents a substantial savings from the $45 individual-root price while keeping Salmon Dream firmly in the premium tier alongside cultivars such as Etched Salmon, Colonel Owen Cousins, and Elsa Sass.
For the right grower, the value here is not simply 30 plants. It is the opportunity to establish a meaningful block of a proven, fertile salmon hybrid with genuine breeding significance.
Pack size: 30 roots
Root grade: Large 3–5 eye bare-root divisions
Pack price: $900
Equivalent price per root: $30
Individual root price: $45
Bloom color: Pale salmon-pink
Flower form: Semi-double
Bloom season: Early
Breeding value: Exceptional; fertile and proven in hybridizing
Hybridizer: David L. Reath
Parentage: Paula Fay × Moonrise
Best for: Commercial growers, hybridizers, collectors, propagation blocks
Planting season: Fall
