Peonies are familiar to most gardeners, but many don't know that there are beautiful peonies for the woodland garden also.
These Japanese peonies offer a refreshing contrast to hostas, ferns, and other more familiar shade plants. They also have attractive fruit clusters after the flowers are gone. Rodents and deer generally do not touch peonies.
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Paeonia japonicaEssential Japanese perennial with attractive gray green foliage 15-18" tall and single white flowers with yellow stamens in May. Fruits are bright red "receptacles" with dark blue seeds on top that are ornamental in late summer. Acidic or neutral soi...
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Paeonia obovataThis peony is a Japanese and Chinese species for light to medium shade, to about 30" tall. It is a variable species, but the plants we sell have a rose-pink flower blooming several weeks after P. japonica, in late spring. The foliage is durable and a...
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