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18 years ago

don't recall seeing a post about tree peonies as being fragrant.

this one has a nice lemon scent at close range

paeonia suffruticosa 'kamata nishiki'

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these have no fragrance but are kinda hard to ignore at 8" dia. :-)

'shama nishiki'

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anyone grow particularly fragrant cultivars of these as opposed to the herbaceous type or are most of them just large, showy flowers with no fragrance?

by the way, they don't bloom reliably for me each year but i think they are worth growing if you have the space. figure they are best suited for more northern gardeners.

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puglvr1
18 years ago
Very nice Jeff. Not too familiar with those flowers, but very pretty...
nimapur
18 years ago
"Ezra Pound" - This variety was described as being the most fragrant among tree peonies. I have not been successful in finding a plant or more information about it.

I grow Festiva Maxima peony. It will bloom this year for the first time, then I can tell you about it's fragrance.
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birdsnblooms
18 years ago
Jeff, I don't know the type, but a peony bush grows next to our house..whoever planted wasn't thinking about light..they grow, flower, blooms are extremely fragrant..huge pink flowers starting from mid summer into fall..Actually there's bushes on either side of our house, but neither get much sun..I'm surprised they bloom. flowers last 1-2 wks..A neighbor living at the end of the block, has several Peony bushes near the street..they get direct south, west and east sun...They are beautiful, healthy plants. Sturdy. Flowers last much longer than ours. Toni
jeff_al
Original Author
18 years ago
hi toni,
the ones i am familiar with finish flowering in spring here. could be your colder zone which causes that one to bloom so late in the season. is it a woody plant like these or do they die back to the ground each year?
the herbaceous types, like 'festiva maxima', are usually fragrant, i recall, but they don't grow as well here in zone 8 and higher.
tree peonies are rated as zone 8-9 upper limits from what i have read so that encouraged me to plant these. they sure took their time to settle in and begin flowering. i hope they will do so on a yearly basis from now on.
thanks for you comments, nimapur and puglvr1.
mare2
18 years ago
Thank you for posting this. I've read some tree peonies are fragrant, but it's hard to find info on specifics. Some people down the street have one in their front yard that looks like your top one--blooms the size of soccer balls--that literally stops traffic.
mersiepoo
18 years ago
Ooooo! I can't wait, maybe mine will be fragrant..will have to wait awhile to see, just planted it last year, it's kinkaku, the yellow orange one.

This site has some info on tree peonies, as well as other ones. I can't wait to see mine bloom! Glad I read that you shouldn't cut them because I have netting around my little plant.

Here is a link that might be useful: Peony info (including tree peonies)