The Fawn – 30 Roots
A distinctive designer peony for growers who want something their customers will remember.
The Fawn is not another standard pink peony. Its large, soft blush-pink double flowers are covered with fine crimson flecking, giving each bloom a hand-painted quality that becomes more interesting the closer you look.
For the commercial cut-flower grower, that distinction is the point. The Fawn gives florists and designers something unusual without becoming difficult to use—the overall impression remains romantic, soft and highly versatile, while the characteristic markings set it apart from the sea of conventional pink peonies on the market.
A Specialty Peony With a Recognizable Identity
Some varieties earn their place in a production field through sheer volume. Others deserve space because customers learn their name.
The Fawn falls into the second category.
Its combination of large double flowers, blush-pink coloring and characteristic flecking makes it particularly suited to high-end wedding work, event design and specialty florist accounts where unusual varieties can command attention.
It is the kind of peony that can help differentiate a grower's offering rather than simply add another pink to the harvest.
Commercial Value Beyond the Standard Pink
Classic pink peonies remain indispensable production flowers, but a diversified commercial planting benefits from varieties that offer something harder to substitute.
The Fawn can fill that role as a premium specialty pink—useful alongside dependable production cultivars such as Sarah Bernhardt rather than as a replacement for them.
For growers selling directly to florists and designers, that creates an opportunity to offer both the reliable standards buyers need and the distinctive cultivars they come back looking for.
Why Plant 30?
A few plants of The Fawn make an interesting addition to a collection. Thirty roots begin to create a commercially meaningful specialty crop.
A 30-root production block gives a cut-flower farm enough volume to introduce the variety to key accounts, photograph and market it by name, and eventually harvest enough stems to offer it as a recognizable part of the farm's peony program.
If your existing field already produces the classic whites and pinks, The Fawn is the kind of variety you plant to make the assortment more interesting.
30 large 3–5 eye divisions · Vermont grown · FREE overnight shipping
