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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 52 fragrant peony varieties for your garden! These fragrant sun loving garden perennials are impressive with their large flowers and bush like habit.

Accent   (Bigger 1979) This is a very fine double, dark red, with a rose type shape that is notably fragrant. It has a very well proportioned flower on a 32" stem with dark green foliage. The large flowers appear in the late part of peony bloom season which is often absent of red doubles which typically bloom earlier in the season. It's excellent plant habit includes; disease resistant foliage that covers the entire stem and very good strong stems. Grow in full sun. $22.99 [Add to Cart]

Alexander Fleming   (1950) Fragrant, bright pink, large double, sweet scent, very floriferous, an outstanding and very fragrant midseason variety. At 38" tall it has plenty of stem length to be used as a cut flower variety and is often used to provide that wonderful peony fragrance in a bouquet with varieties lacking in a strong scent of their own. It's extra vigor is admired by all who grow it as it provides plenty of fragrant blooms to share with friends and family. Plant in full sun. $19.99 [Add to Cart]

Ann Cousins SOLD OUT  (Cousins 1946) Double ivory-white, medium height, delightful rose fragrance, flowers enormously large and the open blooms need support. The plant is a vigorous 32” tall and a dependable late midseason to very late blooming variety. Bloom quality is excellent and of exhibition quality. An APS Gold Medal winner. Those who are looking for a really impressive fragrant peony to cut and share with friends will find this variety a perfect choice. It has been a long time residence in our home garden and one we greatly cherish. Plant in full sun. $0.00 [Add to Cart]

August Dessert   (Dessert 1920) August Dessert is a prolific, large double pink, sometimes called light red of an unusual color, big round petals edged in silver, it blooms midseason. It makes a fine garden plant mixed with other perennials as you can see at the top of our home page. It is very fragrant like many French varieties of peonies. Plant in full sun. $19.99 [Add to Cart]

Baroness Schroeder SOLD OUT  (Kelway 1889) This fragrant variety comes from the famous Kelway Nursery in England that introduced the famous Kelway's Glorious. Very large white double, great cut flower. It begins blooming with a pink center that disappears as the flower finishes opening, Excellent foliage and very strong stems. Late-midseason bloom. Plant in full sun. $0.00 [Add to Cart]

Burma Ruby GM/ALM  (Glasscock 1951) APS Gold Medal and 2009 APS Award of Landscape Merit Winner! A single, bright red hybrid with a little purple in the background that gives it an extra brilliance, very early blooming. A generous bloomer with large petals forming a cup shape set off by the deep green foliage. The added bonus is has a pleasant fragrance too! Plant in full sun in well drained soil. $26.99 [Add to Cart]

Butter Bowl SOLD OUT  (Rosenfield 1955) What a fun and cheerful looking pink Japanese peony with its bright yellow center when first opened. Butter Bowl is fragrant and very showy when cut for the vase and brought indoors in a mixed bouquet. The plant habit is upright and grows to about 36”. Plant in full sun. $0.00 [Add to Cart]

Casablanca  (Lins 1943) Extremely large double pure white flowers of fine form on stiff extra strong 40" stems with large foliage. Late season bloom with a delightful fragrance. The long stems allow you to use them effectively in larger flower arrangements. $24.95 [Add to Cart]

Charm ALM  (Franklin 1931) 2009 Award of Landscape Merit Winner! Very dark mahogany-red Japanese of lustrous satiny sheen with a center of yellow edged red petalodes on upright and vigorous 34" stems. Late season, fragrant. Very classy and in high demand it ranks as one of my personal favorites among the dark red Japanese forms. Plant in full sun. $24.95 [Add to Cart]

Chestine Gowdy  (Brand 1913) Aahh! What a wonderfully fragrant, late, full double. With a bright rose pink center and guard petals separated by a collar of cream colored petals it creates a unique effect. 26" tall. In a bouquet this is just heavenly for the fragrance. Use it genorusly along a fence for a plentiful supply of blooms to share with friends and family. 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.