Add romance to your garden or landscape with these stunning types of peonies.
Grant Webster
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.
Credit:Grant Webster
The threemain types of peoniesare herbaceous, tree, and Itoh.
If you need help choosing from the thousands of peony varieties, check out 25 of our favorites.
The plant has an upright habit, beautiful blooms, and is a vigorous grower.
Credit:Andreas Trauttmansdorff
The plant is very showy, and its 6-inch blooms are particularly good cut flowers.
The plant has wonderful vigor and performs well in the garden each year.
Growing Conditions:Full sunand well-drained soil
Size:3 to 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide.
Credit:Bob Stefko
The bright color stands out in the garden and in floral arrangements.
Blaze is better adapted tomild-winter areasthan many other peonies.
The charming form and colors of this early-season peony absolutely sing spring.
Credit:Lynn Karlin
The blooms open to an astonishing 7 to 10 inches wide and are excellent cut flowers.
It offers lush single blooms with a cheery yellow center, adding anextra dose of colorto the garden.
It was bred in the 1960s and is still popular today.
Credit:Mike Jensen
The unique mid-season salmon-color blooms stand out against other peonies.
Introduced in 1964, this heirloom peony blooms prolifically in late spring to early summer.
It is virtually pest-free.
Credit:Greg Scheidemann
Itsbeautifully fragrantand offers a striking color combination in the garden.
This mid-season peony blooms heavily in late spring or early summer.
The delicate foliage looks great even when the plant isnt in bloom.
Credit:Andreas Trauttmansdorff
It blooms early with 3-inch dark red flowers that open to display bright yellow stamens.
It attracts butterflies and resists deer.
Its an heirloom variety from the 1850s thats still extremely popular today.
Credit:Laurie Black
Its early-season, pure white blooms shimmer in the garden.
Its also agood cut-flower variety.
The peonys bronze spring foliage and yellow fall color are bonuses for your garden.
Credit:Laurie Black
This mid-season beauty blooms from late spring to early summer.
In mid-spring, its striking blooms reach up to 7 inches wide.
Its unique and will definitely stand out in the garden.
Credit:Greg Scheidemann
The flowers are a beautiful cherry-red color, nicely fragrant, and excellent for cutting.
The petals are a charming pale pink that darken toward the flower center, highlighting the yellow centers.
Sturdy branches support the 6-inch blooms without the need for staking.
Credit:Greg Scheidemann
The slightly fragrant, 6-inch singlewhite flowersare borne profusely in late spring and early summer.
Krinkled White is a good choice for the South as it needs a little less cold than most peonies.
Morning Lilac
Paeoniax Morning Lilac is an Itoh peony that blooms in mid-to-late spring.
Credit:AMqzY4gEqOh9dx9GXSo4Ad
The lilac-pink blooms are semi-double and 8 inches wide with gold stamens that contrast beautifully.
As a bonus, the foliage turns bright orange and then red in the fall.
It is a particularly beautiful cut flower.
Credit:Richard Felber
Its tough to beat the brilliant color of the blooms and the reliable nature of this selection.
Paula Fay blooms in late spring or early summer.
Pillow Talk attracts butterflies and other pollinators in mid to late spring.
Credit:Stephen Cridland
Its strong stems make it an excellent cut flower.
The color is beautiful, and it has a wonderful soft scent.
The blooms are staggered and appear in spring to early summer for about six weeks.
Credit:Bob Stefko
This pretty peony blooms from mid to late spring.
Its one of the most eye-catching and dramatic early to mid-season peonies.
Like many peonies, it can be left undisturbed for years in the landscape.
Credit:Andreas Trauttmansdorff
Size:28 to 30 inches tall and wide
Credit:Janet Mesic Mackie
Credit:Grant Webster
Credit:Lynn Karlin
Credit:J.C. & Son Allen
Credit:Stephen Cridland
Credit:Lynn Karlin
Credit:Frances Janisch
Credit: 100103393R
