A week and a half after my second tree peony kicked out flowers, the herbaceous peony it was originally grafted to decided to put on a show as well. So, two types of flowers from one plant this year. Weird but neat.
Also, the tree peony part is called a scion during the grafting dealio.
Album of photographs of tree peonies, published: 1968. Presented to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1971 by William Gratwick. Unsigned black-and-white photographs of black and white tree peonies by Nassos Daphnis, Minor White, and… read more
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Minor White :: White tree peony (Jap.), mid 1950s-1960s; published 1968. [Photographs of tree peonies] at internet archive
Four of Five decided yesterday was a great day to explode in beautiful flowers (the Itoh peony is still being a little shy) and I hurried out to snap a few more pics because heavy rain was in the forecast for evening (and it showed up, as predicted). These two different peonies are similar in coloring, but just slightly different in intensity levels. So beautiful!