For more than 1,000 years, the dried root of the white peony has been used in ancient Chinese medicine. It’s traditionally used to treat various ailments, including mental health disorders ...

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You see, what the leaves do all summer is soak in the sun's rays and convert that energy into food reserves for the peony. It takes a lot of reserves to produce the dozens of eye-popping blooms you've ...

An herbaceous perennial to 80cm tall, with mid-green, divided leaves and cupped cerise-pink flowers 20cm wide, with a central mass of narrow, creamy-white petaloids ...

A clump-forming herbaceous perennial to 1.2m tall with dark green, glossy, divided foliage. Tall stems bear up to four, fragrant, white flowers with prominent golden-yellow anthers in spring; flowers ...