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Fragrant Peony List

Who can resist the attraction of fragrant peonies? Once you experience the delightful and delicious fragrances that vary from rose scented to hints of citrus you'll want to include a few in your garden to enjoy for many years. Fragrant peonies are the most popular kinds, and you can choose from 50 fragrant peony varieties for your garden! These fragrant sun loving garden perennials are impressive with their large flowers and bush like habit.

Moonstone GM  (Murawska 1942) Translucent blush pink double, center fades to white, midseason, 36". Exquisite rose formed bloom and perfect plant habit make it a superb garden flower as well as a show flower. Heavenly fragrance will have you longing to cup the flower to your nose and close your eyes and escape into a dream. This would be on my list of top 10 peonies if I could only have ten. APS Gold Medal Winner! Plant in full sun. Quantity   1 - 2     3+   Price $26.99 $24.29 [Add to Cart]

Mr. Ed  (Klehm 1980) A delightful variety that can have pink and white blooms on the same flower stem! Extra early large blush cream or pink bomb shaped blooms on vigorous strong stems. A tetraploid form of Mons Jules Elie. Fragrant, early season. 28-32" An excellent cut flower. Sometimes it will have pink flowers or white flowers or both all on the same plant or even the same stem. A real novelty and great large bloom on very thick stems. $24.99 [Add to Cart]

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt GM  (Franklin 1932) Beautiful full double light pink water lily-like bloom with long overlapping cupped petals enfolding a rose bud center, very fragrant, free flowering, good cut flower. Midseason, 28 -36". Huge size, form and color combine to make it outstanding! APS Gold Medal Winner! Quantity   1 - 2     3+   Price $24.95 $22.45 [Add to Cart]

Mrs. J. V. Edlund GM  (Edlund 1929) Fragrant very large pure white double is finely formed with waxy broad petals. Blooms very late on tall stiff stems. Dark green foliage. While noted as a show flower with perfect form it will also perform well in the garden. APS Gold Medal! $24.95 [Add to Cart]

Myrtle Gentry  (Brand 1925) Double rosy white, late-midseason, very fragrant, strong stems. Very delightful tea rose fragrance. Perfect rose form double rosy white, late mid season, strong stems. Tints of flesh and salmon show throughout the petals. Splendid grower, dark green foliage. $24.99 [Add to Cart]

Paeonia lactiflora wild pink  (wild species) This species was grown from wild collected seed from Siberia. The flower color of this wild peony species is pink and has up to 6 flowers per stem. More delicate looking than the single flowered cultivated forms. The seed it is about half the size of the garden varieties and more black than brown. It is nearly impossible to get the real wild ancestor of almost all of our garden peonies. Of most interest to those who wish wild genes for breeding or those interested in preserving our wild gene pool for future generations. $25.00 [Add to Cart]

Paeonia lactiflora wild white   (wild species) This species was grown from wild collected seed from Siberia. The flower color of this wild peony species is white and has up to 4 flowers per stem. More delicate looking than the single flowered cultivated forms. The seed it is about half the size of the garden varieties and more black than brown. It is nearly impossible to get the real wild ancestor of almost all of our garden peonies. Of most interest to those who wish wild genes for breeding or those interested in preserving our wild gene pool for future generations. $25.00 [Add to Cart]

Philomele  (Calot 1861) Also called Vadius. An anemone formed pink with a center that is amber-pink to start and grows larger as the flower matures ending mostly pink. You could hardly tell the newly opened flower from one a few days old because of the change. Very novel. Again with a wonderful fragrance as many of the French varieties are noted for possessing. Early mid-season bloom. One of the top ten most fragrant at our nursery. $24.99 [Add to Cart]

Pink Hawaiian Coral GM/ALM  (Klehm 1981) Semi-double, fragrant salmon-pink to coral with a cupped shape bloom. 34" stems. A late-mid-season bloomer. This hybrid peony won the APS Gold Medal in 2000 and received the Award of Landscape Merit in 2009. Quantity   1 - 2     3+   Price $24.99 $22.49 [Add to Cart]

Pink Luau NEW for 2010!  (William Krekler-Roy G. Klehm 1995) Many petals arranged daisy like fasion streaked dark pink over a lighter pink base color. Even the buds are attractively striped. Flowers are 5 1/2" across and delightfully fragrant. Strong 33" stems hold the flowers above the foliae. Were sorry our photo’s did not turn out this season but an image search on the internet should find you some great examples. Plant in full sun. $22.99 [Add to Cart]

Many times we are asked, what fragrant peonies do we grow? We had a list of our own and with a great deal of researching many peony books both old and new and asking our customers to let us know which they thought were notable fragrant peony varieties in their gardens we have put together the following offerings. Add a few fragrant peonies to your garden to increase your pleasure and relaxation. Some of our favorite fragrant peonies include; Philomele, Moonstone, Alexander Fleming, Chestine Gowdy, and Laura Dessert. Myrtle Gentry is considered by many to be the most fragrant. Those who prefer a peony with a clear true red color can choose from Diana Parks or Henry Bockstoce two fantastic hybrid doubles that are very fragrant. Consider the Fragrant French Peony, Madame Calot for the French Country Garden, Lady Alexandra Duff which is a beloved variety in English Gardens, and Hermione which I wish was in bloom all year long. Many antique varieties from France like, August Dessert, Mme de Verneville and Mme Emile Lemoine are deliciously fragrant. These peonies were selected as cut flower varieties for people who wanted them to be brought indoors and enjoyed not just for their color but fragrance also. Don't limit yourself to the doubles but consider some of the unusual forms and color combinations of fragrant peonies like Butter Bowl and Pink Hawaiian Coral. Sea Shell, an APS Gold Medal winner is noted for it's pleasant fragrance and is one of the few singles that make a great cut flower. It also received the Award of Landscape Merit for 2009! As you may guess not all people agree on which peonies are the most fragrant. My favorite fragrant peony? I hate to pick one but those at the top of my list would be Moonstone and Madame Calot for classic form, Laura Dessert and Philomele for rarity of colors and form, and Myrtle Gentry for the most strongly fragrant in our garden.