Peony Manrico

Description

A broad, spreading plant with deeply cut, mid-green leaves produces big, ruffled, semi-double flowers that open rich reddish pink and fade with age to pale pink with tones of palest cream and dark red edges. The flowers form a neat rosette. This was introduced by Bernard Chow, an Australian peony breeder who lived in central Melbourne and raised many woody peonies on a small piece of land behind the family shop.