Use and Care Manual

Van Zyverden Peonies

Festiva Maxima

Fragrant

Peonies will live for decades

Excellent cut flower

Peonies are perennials and are known to live for decades, even generations. The blooms

are outrageously beautiful, producing lush, glossy, green foliage all summer long, turning purplish or

gold in the fall, as stately and dignified as any shrub. They are somewhat more expensive to propagate,

but well worth the investment in your garden. Double peonies, which is what these are, are by far the

most popular of all peony types and the most widely planted.

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Van Zyverden Peonies Festiva Maxima Peonies are perennials and are known to live for decades, even generations. The blooms are outrageously beautiful, producing lush, glossy, green foliage all summer long, turning purplish or gold in the fall, as stately and dignified as any shrub. They are somewhat more expensive to propagate, but well worth the investment in your garden. Double peonies, which is what these are, are by far the most popular of all peony types and the most widely planted.
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About This Variety: Festiva Maxima Peonies produce an extravagant garden display early in the season, with frilly, creamy white blossoms that have splashes of crimson peeking through. Growing Instructions: In most of the country, the rules for success are simply full sun and well-drained humus-rich soil. Peonies even relish cold winters, because they need chilling for bud formation. In zones 8 and higher they are harder to grow.