Flowers named after the Greek physician of the gods

Usage examples of peonies.

The roses were still in bloom, and the peonies, destined to serve as prototypes for countless penwipers, were still just coming out.

To the left lay a remarkable trail through a low-lying meadow lush with the most astoundingly beautiful flowers: lavender, yellow rue, blood-red poppies, delicate gillyvor, fat peonies, pale dog roses, vivid marigolds, banks of irises like earthbound rainbows, all intermixed with a scattering of urgently blue cornflowers.

The carpet was strewn with lilies, the lamps were decorated with forget-me-nots and daffodils, and on a marble-topped table in the middle of the room was a poppy-painted vase with pink peonies in it.

Since I hadn’t, I looked at the peonies behind the gazebo and said, “When’s the next train?

Since I hadn’t, I looked at the peonies behind the gazebo and said, “When’s the next train?

He swung around the circle where his mother had planted a bounty of peonies, hibiscus, and flashy red geraniums.

She got the car moving again, eased it around the island of peonies, and stopped.

Heat drowned her as she walked forward into sunlight, into the haze of bright color, pale bells of columbine, lush peonies, banks of poppies, and a rich cloud of lavender.

As she said this she raised her eyes, which had been lowered, fixed on the bed of peonies, and she realized that Sir Stephen was staring at her lips.

The wallpaper in the room was blue, with enormous golden peonies, the window looked out onto a pit whence rose the odor of garbage cans.

Lilacs, peonies, and jonquils were arranged in showy springtime displays in tall cut-glass vases.

Around him shivered dark peonies, releasing the scent of roses, clumps of iris and hollyhock.

In that way I might have introduced peonies into the country and made my name immortal like the Duchesse de Nemours herself.