Paeonia caucasica

This is the Caucasian member of the mascula complex, with decorative sage-coloured, green foliage, that lacks hairs. The underside is shiny purple-red.

The flowers open in April here and are sumptuous open bowl-shaped goblets of intense rosy-red to red-pink.

These plants are propagations from a seed-grown stock, itself raised from material originally found in the Daba Forest in Georgia.