Appearance
Large, rounded blooms with overlapping layers of soft pink petals, their ruffled edges fading to cream.
Growth & Habitat
Peonies grow beside garden walls, sometimes outlasting the houses they once adorned.
Peonies flower from late spring into early summer, briefly filling old gardens with colour.
Uses & Customs
Its blooms can grow heavy enough to bow their stems, and gardeners often prop them up.
Couples married under Sholla plant a peony beside their home, hoping it will grow old with them.