Rose shaped flowers appear on branches in the early spring as the new growth is emerging, often blooms for extended periods.

Paeonia emodi 'Late Windflower' is a lovely species peony with smallish single pure white flowers with yellow centres.

Paeonia lactiflora 'Alertie is a lovely, fragrant, early-blooming, double peony with pale pink flowers that fade to white.

Paeonia 'Angel Cheeks' is an award-winner with large pale pink fully double flowers with hints of yellow.

Paeonia lactiflora 'Big Ben' produces huge, double, bomb-type heads of beautifully fragrant, cherry red flowers.

Paeonia lactiflora 'Bouquet Perfect' is a gorgeous mid season anemone type peony with glowing bright pink to magenta flowers.

Paeonia 'Bowl of Beauty' offers a delicious cup of single fuchsia-rose outer petals brimming with frilly pale yellow inner petals.

Paeonia 'Bowl of Cream' has fully double creamy white flowers that can be up to 12 inches across!

Paeonia lactiflora 'Bowl of Love' is a more compact 'Bowl of Beauty' with a bowl of delicious carmine pink cupping a ruffled pale yellow centre.

Paeonia 'Candy Stripe' is a stunning flamed peony with white and pale pink petals liberally and variably streaked with magenta.

Paeonia lactiflora 'Celebrity' has bright magenta guard petals displaying a rambunctious mass of magenta and white inner petalodes.

Paeonia lactiflora 'Charlie's White' is a beautiful double peony with white outer petal and creamy white to palest yellow inner petals.

Paeonia lactiflora 'Coral Charm' is a striking, early season, semi-double peony with large coral, peach and pink flowers.

Paeonia lactiflora 'Coral Sunset' is a striking, early season, semi-double peony with large coral, peach and rose flowers.

Paeonia lactiflora 'Do Tell' is an anemone type peony with delicate pale pink cups forming a ruffled bowl around a frilly dark pink centre.

Paeonia 'Duchesse de Nemours' is an heirloom peony more than 150 years old with stunning ivory white double flowers.

Paeonia lactiflora ‘Early Scout’ is one of the earliest blooming of all peonies flowering at the same time as the late tulips!

Paeonia lactiflora 'Eden's Perfume' is a lovely and very fragrant double peony in shades of pale pink with subtle highlights of yellow and deep pink.

Paeonia lactiflora 'Festiva Maxima' is a classic, double white that has been grown for more than 150 years!

Paeonia lactiflora 'Green Halo' is an unusual semi-double peony with light green outer petals and creamy white inner petals. Lightly perfumed.

Paeonia 'Highlight' has large, fully double flowers in shades of magenta-red on strong, upright stems.

Paeonia 'Honey Gold' is a stunning white and yellow peony with a lovely fragrance.

Paeonia lactiflora 'Joker' is a stunning, double peony emerging vibrant pink slowly fading to white with pink picotee edges.

Paeonia lactiflora 'Krinkled White' has ruffled and krinkled pure white petals with variably fringed edges around golden yellow centres.