Amy Martin shares that she loves to pair peonies with boxwood shrubs, because they provide a 'dense, evergreen structure that contrasts beautifully with the peony’s softer, more billowing form.

Peony is the common name for plants in the genus Paeonia, the only genus of the Paeoniaceae family. Cultivated for more than 4,000 years, peony has been used as a medicine for treating ailments ...

The portrait seems to say it all: On a billowing silken couch that resembles a giant peony, three women swathed in white appear to bloom, their beauty and privilege an expression of nature as much ...

These are my top three autumn billowing clouds ... I don’t use asters in my summer rose and peony borders, however. Here I use easily grown annuals bred from a Mexican species called Cosmos ...