They might be an old-fashioned garden plant, but there are so many more varieties available today that will fit your preferences. Some are fragrant, some are tall and need support, but many stand without staking and make great backdrop plants after the flowers fade. You just can't have too many peonies!
2. ‘Al’s Choice’
• Type: Intersectional
(cross between herbaceous and tree peony)
• Introduced by: Allan Rogers in 2005
• Form: single to semi-double
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‘Angel Cheeks’
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4. ‘Angel Cheeks’
• Type: Herbaceous lactiflora cultivar
• Introduced by: Roy Klehm in 1970
• Form: bomb
• fragrant
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6. ‘Joker’
• Type: Herbaceous hybrid
(containing two or more different species)
• Introduced by: Allan Rogers in 2004
• Form: double
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28. ‘White Cap’
• Type: Herbaceous lactiflora cultivar
• Introduced by: G. E. Winchell in 1956
• Form: Japanese
• Very fragrant; lots of secondary buds
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36. ‘The Fawn’
Photo by Klehm’s Songsparrow Farms
• Type: Herbaceous lactiflora cultivar
• Introduced by: B. B. Wright in the early 20th century
• Form: double
• Very unusual speckled petals
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46. ‘Yellow Doodle
Dandy’
• Type: Intersectional hybrid
• Introduced by: Donald Smith in 2002
• Form: double
• Lightly fragrant flowers can be 8” across
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