Before any of us were born, plant breeders looked at the Chinese peony and decided that if a variety had many petals, its offspring would look much better with far more. Nature may give us a plant ...

Herbaceous peonies, also called Chinese peonies, are the common garden peonies.Most of them are cultivars of the species Paeonia lactiflora.They are clump-forming perennials with large flowers in ...

Venerable peony a Colorado fave. Skip to content. ... loved by Greeks, Romans and even the Chinese, ... deeply cupped single red “Salmon Dream,” semi-double salmon with pink lighter edges, ...

Of the 40 or so species, the popular herbaceous Paeonia lactiflora, the Chinese peony, was bred to produce huge double blooms, while Japanese hybrids were bred to produce simple flowers.