One of the finest of the species Peonies, this Mediterranean goody is among the first to bloom in spring. Fabulous new growth and very showy single pink flowers. With good, well-drained soil, this will be more heat tolerant than the other species.

Just call her Molly the Witch.  This fabled Peony is a choice species from the Caucasus region with impossible to improve upon single yellow goblets for flowers.  The red new growth in spring evokes some avant garde asparagus.  Showy blue-black seeds mingle with red infertile ovules.

A woody species peony we first saw in Yunnan in 1997 growing in the open woodland surrounding the alluvial plain of the Ganghoba valley with Dipelta, Rodgersia and Arisaema.  This will get 4'-6' tall with nicely dissected foliage and the small but intense flowers on these young, seed-grown plants will likely be red although orange is possible as we have both and bees will be bees.

Unflowered seed-grown plants of this short woody species which we presume will come true but cannot discount reverting to the norm of red or yellow.  This came to us many years ago from the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle.  Multiple woody stems to 4'-7' tall with well-dissected leaves and small ORANGE flowers.

Choice woodland species from Japan where the small bowl-shaped white flowers are much admired and combines harmoniously with the simple rounded leaflets.  An easy herbaceous species and one of the few Peonies that thrives in the shade.  Looks great with Ferns, Hellebores and Hostas.

Steve Hootman, curator of the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, often pats himself on the back for collecting this exceptional species in China and each spring as our plants flower, we murmur attaboys and give him virtual high fives.  Loves some shade, great foliage and spring pink flowers.

A very elegant species combining refinement of foliage and flower.  Rounded leaflets softly tinted in flesh tones back the single pink goblet shaped flowers.  Exquisite is a word not used lightly here.  A denizen of the Japanese woodlands, this performs beautifully in full shade.

This Chinese woodland Peony is one of the few species blooming and thriving in full shade although part sun suits it as well.  Nicely dissected ferny foliage and slightly nodding single pink flowers 2-3 per stem makes this distinctively beautiful.  Decent drainage.  Easy.