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A Guide to Herbaceous Peonies 2024

Herbaceous Peonies, the most well-known type of peony, produce some of the best cut flowers available.

Herbaceous or Chinese Peony, Common Garden Peonies (Paeonia lactiflora) – This ancient Chinese Peony is the most popular peony of all. A garden simply is not complete without at least one type of Peony in it. Peonies do take some time to get established, but once they are they do not disappoint.

They are surprisingly easy to care for, requiring just the odd pruning and fall clean up. Once established they only need watering during a drought as they do not like wet soil. Peonies generally do not require fertilizing unless the quality of the soil is poor. With just a little attention, Peonies will reward you with large showy blooms, heady aromas and lots of attitude!  Peony flowers are lush, romantic, fragrant and dramatic.  They make excellent cutting flowers.

Some of the Herbaceous Peonies you may find in the Garden Centre. Please contact us for current inventory.

 

Best Man

This rare peony is not always easy to find. Fragrant double flowers of cerise - deep red with pink overtones over lush green foliage

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Big Ben

An heirloom, very rounded with enormous cherry red globes with bluish undertones. This vigorous plant has an incredibly rosy scent.

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Bowl of Beauty

A very different looking peony is magnificent when in bloom. Bright pink outer petals with frilly yellow centres makes it stand out

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Bowl of Love

A fragrant bowl of outer rose-red petals surrounds a center filled with densely packed, soft yellow strap-like petals. The lacy middle and anemone-shaped blossoms add texture & style.

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Bunker Hill

A luscious heirloom has been gracing gardens for over 100 years. Every bright rose pink petal of this splendid bloom is edged in silver. The bright rosy red flower is fully double and some stamens can be found at their centres. Flowers receive all the support they need from their long, strong 36" stems. Great in borders and cut-flower arrangements.

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Catharina Fontijn

Paeonia Catharina Fontijn is a traditional Dutch classic. The best thing about this variety is that its colouring will differ slightly each year though will always contain a shade of light pink. This is a robust, prolific and sturdy peony that out-performs its peers with bushels of shell-pink, fully-double, breath-taking blossoms. Beautifully scented, this cultivar is much sought-after in the wedding and florist trade, not to mention, every gardener's home. Quite the surprising peony!

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Cora Stubbs

Pretty in Pink! A sensational peony that is also quite fragrant. Large blossoms feature two rows of raspberry pink petals surrounding a densely packed centre of creamy white and pale pink. A vigorous, mid-season peony will give a great show in the the spring garden.

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Coral Charm

This early bloomer is exceptionally beautiful with large, semi double blossoms of classic bowl-shaped blooms. Deep coral buds that open to coral peach incurved petals, eventually fading to ivory. Low maintenance, long-lived and loved by butterflies.

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Coral Sunset

While not quite as cupped as Coral Charm, it is a stunning peony. Elegantly ruffled coral petals, rose overtones & deep yellow centres.

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Dr. Alexander Fleming

A long lasting Peony with large deep rose to salmon-pink double blooms known for its ambrosial scent, strong stems and many side buds that foster a long bloom season. Blooms late mid-season.

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Duchess De Nemours

This very old Duchess is an heirloom white variety with fragrant full double flowers 5″-6″ across and have a soft classic, fluffy appearance. Blooms late mid-season. The bright white colour makes this regal old lady very popular for bridal bouquets and gardens.

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Felix Crousse

Quickly reaches 3 ft. tall, 2 ft. wide., A true garden classic, loved by American gardeners for well over a century, with its large, crimson double blooms that provide stunning seasonal color.

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Festiva Maxima

One of the most fragrant & stunning Peonies out there, this remarkable flower assaults your senses in the best possible way! A brilliant white double peony with delicate thin pink streaks. The Festiva Maxima will grow to be between 2-3 ft. tall, with ornamental deep green foliage. Prefers full sun and plenty of moisture in the soil.

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Green Lotus

A pretty single bloom peony features pale lime green petals with soft pink overtones and a bright yellow centre mid-season. Contrasting nicely, are the lance shaped deep green foliage. It is a shrubby perennial that, each year, will typically grow to 26-28” tall.

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Honey Gold

Honey Gold is fabulous and fragrant. An interesting flower features large, fully double, 6" blooms with golden centres surrounded by creamy white petals. provide fantastic impact and loads of gorgeous color to borders, feature beds and cutting gardens. A very long-lived perennial that will grace your gardens for years to come.

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Immacule

A Fickle Flower - this classic Dutch Peony was created by the same breeders as Catharina Fontijn. Immacule is unpredictable as the flowers of this peony do not all share the same look. The color of the bud may differ: the flowers get either a white color or a pinkish glow. A sweet white Peony with a soft, pink blush and a fabulous fragrance.

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Kansas

One of the best double red peonies with exceptionally bold, strong stems and loose frilly petals. Super showy blooms of very large, rose shaped watermelon red to fuchsia make this Peony a standout. The leaves are dark and the stems are red. A sensational Peony from top to bottom.

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Karl Rosenfield

Another fabulous double, deep red to magenta peony that produces an astonishing number of flowers on reddish-bronze foliage. Large 6" to 7", fluffy double blooms, these hardy perennial plants grow to be 32″-38″ tall with glossy green foliage.

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Lady Alexandra Duff

More than a century old, this lovely lady is delicately fragrant. Pink buds open to large, rose shaped pale pink ruffled blossoms on strong stems. Borne in profusion in late spring - early summer.

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Madame Calot

An heirloom with a unique colour combination of light old-rose pink with creamy-yellow tints in the collar & crimson flaked centres.

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Marie Lemoine

Introduced in 1869, this richly fragrant heirloom variety features bold fragrant very large white flowers with lemon yellow overtones, yellow eyes and red streaks at the ends of the stems when they open in early summer. They then change to pure white.

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Mme Emile Debatene

Charming, sophisticated with a luxurious scent, she explodes into frilly deep pink blooms with a hint of salmon.

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Paul M. Wild

Velvety, ruby-red, fully double blooms are displayed on the tall, sturdy, erect 36" stems. The flower colour will not fade like many other reds. The spectacular blooms are an excellent cut flower or background plant in mixed perennial and shrub borders. The spectacular blooms are an excellent cut-flower with a pleasant fragrance. Late mid-season.

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Primevere

Plump, heavily petaled blooms 6-8 in. of double pearly-white petals surround a fluffy canary-yellow center. Exceedingly fragrant.

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Purple Spider

This striking peony definitely stands out amongst the rest with its unusual form & colour. Vivid violet pink petals tipped with white give this Peony a frosted look. Strong, romantic plants with long stems and big flowers that are beautiful in early summer bouquets.

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Sarah Bernhardt

This beloved, world famous Peony is swathed in very large, double, 8” blooms of fresh pastel pink framed by emerald green foliage. Can be dark rose-pink, with a lighter edge of medium height on strong stems. agreeably fragrant, but not especially so. Very popular, and considered one of the best exhibition flowers.

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Shirley Temple

Blousy blooms of loosely packed ruffled petals put on a show in subtle blush pink aging to a creamy ivory. Classically romantic.

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Sorbet

Very unusual anemone type flowers are incredibly beautiful in bloom and erupt with flouncy layers of pink and pinkish-ivory petals.

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