• Eventual height: 0.8m
  • Eventual spread: 0.8m

Paeonia lactiflora 'Duchesse de Nemours'

paeony or peony

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This perennial dies back to below ground level each year in autumn, then fresh new growth appears again in spring.

  • Position: full sun
  • Soil: moderately fertile, moist but well-drained soil
  • Rate of growth: average
  • Flowering period: June to July
  • Hardiness: fully hardy


Prized for their big, glamorous blooms and glossy, deeply cut foliage, peonies are held in deep affection by many gardeners, despite their short flowering season and vulnerability to peony wilt in damp weather. It's easy to see why. From the promise of early spring, when their red, mottled shoots push through bare earth and the handsome foliage unfurls from spherical red buds, to early summer, when the huge flowers burst open, peonies exert a fascination that few can resist. 'Duchesse de Nemours' has huge, bowl-shaped pure white, fragrant, double flowers, flushed green in bud, from early to midsummer. This classic, double-flowered peony from the mid-nineteenth century is a favourite of the cut flower trade. It will thrive in full sun or partial shade. Fill the bare ground around the peony before the leaves appear with spring bulbs to prolong the season of interest.


  • Garden care:
    Plant your Paeonia as soon as you are able and conditions allow in soil that is not water-logged or frozen. Incorporate some well-rotted compost or manure and mycorrhizal fungi into the planting hole. Deadhead after flowering. In early spring apply a top dressing of a balanced slow-release fertiliser around the base of the plant and mulch with conditioned organic matter.
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