This American Peony Society gold medal winner adds a more unexpected peony color to your landscaping. Semi-double blooms top plants about 36 inches tall and unfurl in salmon pink with yellow middles.

Add romance to your garden or landscape with spectacular peonies. These long-lived perennials produce large, fragrant blooms in striking colors in spring and early summer. They attract butterflies and ...

* What it is: This is arguably the best of the so-called “Itoh hybrid” peonies, a difficult but beautiful cross of the tree peony and the herbaceous one that Japanese botanist Dr. Toichi Itoh pulled ...

Her name is Bartzella, and she is something of a novelty and relative newcomer in the world of peonies. She definitely stands out among the other peonies in the Smithsonian’s Mary Livingston Ripley ...

When I was growing up we had a large rose bush near a corner of our house. It was very thorny and they were long enough to catch me if I cut too near trying to elude my chasing brothers. However, my ...

Known as "the floral symbol of China, the state flower of Indiana, and the 12th anniversary flower," this versatile perennial blossoms into lush flowers between late spring and early summer and, if ...

We have exactly one peony plant in our garden, but it is an unusual one. I got this Yellow Crown Peony from Donna Hubman, perennial expert, now retired after a long, long career at greengate Garden ...

Without checking the weather it was obvious that it was going to be a really hot day the morning I wrote this column. Cabbage white butterflies were already flying around at 8 a.m. Most references say ...

Peonies, for me, are the ultimate romantic flower. You almost forget you have them as they vanish down below ground in winter. Then, what a delight, when their tight buds appear every year, promising ...

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