Category: Peonies

The Bowl of Beauty peony is a pink and cream bicolor variety with huge anemone-type flowers. This popular variety has lovely fragrant blooms and grows early in the season under full sun. Plants grow about 34″-36″ tall, with an overall foliage width of 32″-36″ wide. Bowl of Beauty peony basics The Bowl Of Beauty peony…

Coral Charm peony is a peach-coral peony cultivar with large, semi-double, bowl-shaped blooms. This variety blooms early in the peony season with a lovely fragrant bloom. Plants grow about 36″ tall, with an overall foliage width of 24″-36″ wide. The Coral Charm peony was bred in the USA by Samuel Wissing in 1964. Coral Charm…

Coral Sunset peony is a pink-orange peony variety with soft, bowl-shaped semi-double flowers. This variety has gorgeous yellow stamens, a lovely fragrance, and blooms early in the season. Plants grow about 30″-36″ tall, with an overall foliage width of 32″-36″ wide. Samuel Wissing bred the Coral Sunset peony in the USA in 1965. It was…

Raspberry Sundae peony is a soft pink and yellow bicolor peony cultivar with fluffy bombe-type petals. Individual flowers are 5″-7″ wide and have a floral sweet fragrance, blooming in mid-spring. Plants grow about 36″ tall, with an overall foliage width of 30″-36″ wide when established. Carl Klehm of Illinois (USA) bred the Raspberry Sundae peony…

Sorbet peony is a pink and white bicolor peony variety known for its fluffy alternating layers of petals. The fragrant “bombe-type” flowers are 6″-7″ wide during the peak of their mid-spring bloom. Plants grow to 26″-36″ tall, with an overall plant width of 24″-36″ wide. The Sorbet peony was discovered in a South Korean orchard…

Shirley Temple peony is a popular peony variety of herbaceous peony with light-rose flowers that turn cream-white as they mature on the plant. The stunning rose-white blooms of Shirley Temple peony can be 6″-8″ wide in full bloom and are delightfully fragrant. This type of peony makes fantastic cut flowers and is a wonderful low-maintenance…

Karl Rosenfield peony is an herbaceous peony variety with large, deep-red, fluffy double blooms. These hardy perennial plants grow to be 32″-38″ tall with glossy green foliage. The large blooms can reach 6″-7″ wide each on established plants and make wonderful cut flowers for bouquets. The Karl Rosenfield Peony is a cultivar of Paeonia lactiflora…

The Sarah Bernhardt peony is a large, delightfully fragrant, double-bloom variety with soft rose-pink petals. These low-maintenance herbaceous peonies bloom best when grown in full sun and well-drained soil, giving the peony roots access to plenty of moisture. Sarah Bernhardt peonies are a cultivar of Paeonia lactiflora bred in France by Victor Lemoine in the…

The Festiva Maxima peony variety is a brilliant white double peony with delicate thin pink streaks. These herbaceous perennial plants grow to be between two and three feet tall, with ornamental deep green foliage. Festiva Maxima prefers full sun and plenty of moisture in the soil. Blooms on well-established plants can be up to seven…

The Pink Hawaiian Coral peony is a vibrant herbaceous peony with coral-pink petals and a yellow center. The blossoms of Pink Hawaiian Coral have a rounded cup-like shape with delicate cream-yellow stamens in the middle. It starts with light pink petals that deepen to a rich, bright pink as the flower blooms. This hybrid cultivar…

Peony plants fall into one of three categories: herbaceous peonies, tree peonies, and intersectional/Itoh peonies (modern crosses between herbaceous and tree types). The shape of the flowers ranges from airy, delicate blooms to bodacious, frilly pom-pom puffs. Peony flower blooms are categorized into six types: single, Japanese, anemone, semi-double, bombe, and full double. Many peonies…

Cut back peonies in the fall around the time of the first autumn frost. Spent flowers are generally trimmed off in June after they’ve blossomed, but the leaves of the plant should remain standing until mid-Autumn so the plant can produce next year’s flower buds. Cut back peonies when the first frost is forecast or…