P. x lagodechiana (aka P. x chamaeleon). The natural cross from P. caucasica x P. mlokosewitschii. Took a battering from the wet Winter and are much decreased in size compared to last year. Usually quite attractive colours, the yellows are often confused with P. mlokosewitschii, but selfing them for seeds tends to give all kinds of colours, so hybrid…

Paeonia kesrouanensis now blooming here. You can see it’s far ahead of all other species, some twenty other species are growing around it, but nothing comes close.