Paeonia Nice Gal

Peony Nice Gal won the Award of Landscape Merit, which underscores its strengths. Peony Nice Gal is a truly outstanding landscape peony. This perennial is a compact strong-stemmed plant that holds a mass of big lavender-pink, semi-double flowers just above the foliage throughout the bloom season. The petal edges become frosted silver to white as the flower ages, adding to its dramatic display in the garden. Mild fragrance.

How to grow Paeonia lactiflora - the Chinese peony

The Chinese peony or common garden peony is native to central and eastern Asia from eastern Tibet across northern China to eastern Siberia. There are several hundred selected cultivars of Chinese peony in a range of colors, sizes and forms. Many have double flowers, and many colors are available, from pure white, to pink, rose, and near red, along with single to fully double forms. Most of the cultivars are fragrant. The Chinese peony is an easily grown and undemanding perennial. Paeonia lactiflora prefers full sun, although a few types will tolerate light shade. They prefer a good, fertile, well-drained soil, which is preferably neutral to alkaline. These large perennials are tolerant to a wide range of soil conditions, but will not survive if the soil becomes waterlogged or too dry.