Garden Peonies

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‘Coral Sunset’
Garden Peony - Bare-Root Plants

Paeonia lactiflora 28" tall. Intense sunset coral with rose overtones and fluffy golden stamens. Semi-double. Early season. Light fragrance and long vase life. Z3. read more
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‘Festiva Maxima’
Garden Peony - Bare-Root Plants

Paeonia lactiflora 3' tall. Heavenly scented large double white flowers with a light crimson drizzle upon the central petals. Flowers late spring to early summer. Z3. read more
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‘Highlight’
Garden Peony - Bare-Root Plants

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Paeonia lactiflora Late midseason. 34" tall. Fully double type. Dark sensational burgundy red is unusual and arresting. Pairs well with any color. Sturdy stems make a great cutflower. Heirloom! Z3. read more
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‘Nippon Beauty’
Garden Peony - Bare-Root Plants

Paeonia lactiflora 24" tall. Single anemone-type with scarlet-red guard petals surrounding fringed red and gold petaloid centers. Unique and hard-to-find variety. Early-midseason blooms. Z3. read more
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‘Sarah Bernhardt’
Garden Peony - Bare-Root Plants

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Paeonia lactiflora 36" tall. Fragrant flowers open with narrow red lines shot onto light rose-pink. One of our favorites! Z3. read more
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‘Top Brass’
Garden Peony - Bare-Root Plants

Paeonia lactiflora 28" tall. Double bomb type. Pure white guard petals under a tuft of bright yellow petals topped with pink-white petaloids. Jazzy and dazzling. Mild fragrance. Midseason. Z3. read more
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Garden Peonies

Also called Chinese Peony. Reliable, long-lived hardy herbaceous perennial native from Tibet to Siberia. The red to forest-green shoots appear in mid-spring and form a bushy clump of lustrous dark green deeply lobed foliage that makes a lovely hedge or backdrop to the flower garden.

Big spherical buds on sturdy stems gradually open from late spring to early summer, transforming into huge stunning blooms. Peonies require support to keep the heavy blossoms from flopping. For long-lasting cutflowers, harvest when buds are soft like marshmallows but not quite open.

Ants on peony buds are normal, so leave them alone. While the ants collect sticky nectar, they also protect the peonies against insect pests. Before you bring cuts indoors, dunk them in a bucket of water to rinse off the ants.

Plant 2–3' apart with eyes no more than 1–1½" below the surface in deep, fertile, moist but well-drained soil, full sun to partial shade. Plants may take 3–5 years to establish before blooming, and are sensitive to disturbance during that time. Wait several years until the plants have many stems (therefore many eyes) before dividing.