Pink. Paeonia suffruticosa, Shrubby Peony, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
In his very pretty The Botanist's Repository (1804) Henry Cranke Andrews (ca.1770-1830) gives a fine illustration of our flower. He says that it 'is perhaps the most showy and desirable species in this short but magnificent genus of plants'. Indeed, you can hardly not be struck by its pink beauty. Andrews distinguishes it clearly from species earlier described by Carl Peter Thunberg and João de Loureiro in Japan and in China. Our Peony comes from China and apparently was first cultivated in England in 1794.
Pink. Paeonia suffruticosa, Shrubby Peony, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
In his very pretty The Botanist's Repository (1804) Henry Cranke Andrews (ca.1770-1830) gives a fine illustration of our flower. He says that it 'is perhaps the most showy and desirable species in this short but magnificent genus of plants'. Indeed, you can hardly not be struck by its pink beauty. Andrews distinguishes it clearly from species earlier described by Carl Peter Thunberg and João de Loureiro in Japan and in China. Our Peony comes from China and apparently was first cultivated in England in 1794.