Top Selling Peonies in 2025

Better late than never! Does anyone else imagine winter as a season of rest, only to find it busier than summer? We’re making some changes around the house during my “off” season, and it’s created a bit of chaos in my day-to-day life — good chaos, and some much-needed projects finally getting done. So while there’s new front door going in, let’s talk about our big sellers of 2025.

5- Sunny Day (Hollingsworth, 2011)

This has been in my top five for the past three years. It’s no secret — I absolutely adore this plant. My favourite plants tend to share a few key traits:

1. They remain upright without staking

2. They grow into a big plant with personality

3. I tend to prefer singles (just personal preference), something about their dainty appearance

4. They are easy to divide

5. They are fast growers

   
   

Sunny Day checks all those boxes and then some. It’s robust, flowers profusely, and has a beautiful subtle peachy hue early in the season. After this year, this one will be going back into production for a while. I’ll miss the huge hedge I’ve been selling from over the past few seasons.

4- Candy Stripe (Anderson, R.F, 1992)

This has become a sought-after plant in recent years. It’s been around for quite a while and is fairly easy to find, but it remains popular for good reason. I find it grows into a robust lactiflora with reliable blooms.

It isn’t covered in flowers like some varieties, but it performs consistently. It’s a quirky addition to the garden and works well with many different colour palettes.

3-Savage Splendor (Saunders, 1950)

Woody peonies that look up at you are keepers. This beautifully coloured, upward-facing woody peony deserves a place in everyone’s collection.

One of the main reasons it makes the top three is that it grafts exceptionally well. It flowers reliably and performs well in our colder climate, producing plenty of scions and surviving the grafting process with ease.

I’m currently planning a small front garden, and Savage Splendor made the cut.

2- Anna Marie (Seidl, 1984)

Well deserving of the second spot, Anna Marie is a very reliable grower. Our three-year-old grafts are about half a foot taller than most other varieties.

It performs very well here in Zone 5b. With good snow cover, Anna Marie can reach about four feet tall. I don’t use winter protection of any kind and rely entirely on snow cover — that’s just the kind of gardener I am. If a plant needs too much protection from the weather, I usually don’t grow it.

Fortunately, Anna Marie thrives here and produces a glorious lavender flower.

1- Etched Salmon (Cousins / Klehm, 1981)

A plant that needs no introduction. Etched Salmon received the American Peony Society Gold Medal in 2002, the Award of Landscape Merit in 2012, and was named Canadian Peony of the Year in 2021.

It has just about everything you could want in a peony — except perhaps the fragrance… it’s not the best 😅

I sell plants originating from many different countries, so I’m especially happy that year after year my top-selling peony is a Canadian introduction.