Peony

One of the favorite flowers of my wive. Always she sees them on the market or in a garden centre she wants to buy them. Now it happened.

The botanical name Paeonia goes back to antiquity. Paieon was the god of healing in ancient Greece.
A large number of species of this genus are grown as ornamental and garden plants. Peonies are also used as cut flowers.

There are shrubby and herbaceous peonies.