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Reinhardt Peony Garden debuts new Bed G as early blooms arrive

3666494 · June 4, 2025
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Volunteer Stephen Hessler unveiled a new planting area, Bed G, at the Howard and Chinwan Reinhardt Peony Garden and described the garden's collection, early bloom timing and a recent theft reported to police.

Stephen Hessler, retired piano professor at the U and a volunteer committee member for the Howard and Chinwan Reinhardt Peony Garden, led a narrated tour highlighting a newly installed planting called Bed G and the garden's blooming collection.

Hessler said Bed G contains 21 new peonies and framed the amphitheater to balance blooms across the site. “Here is bed G,” he said during the tour, noting the garden now fills the musical sequence the volunteers had used to label beds A through G.

The new bed opened into a larger collection Hessler described as having 252 plant spaces. He said the…

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