Peony blooms bid spring farewell, and the national beauty and heavenly fragrance are at their prime
Songchun Guose peony blooms in late March, with 2-5 flowers per scape, large flowers, numerous petals, many lips, and a profusion of column parts. The lips, petals, and column parts change endlessly, and the colorful flower centers are full of charm and temptation. As she gradually reveals her inner nature and temperament, the flower center keeps splitting, and the column parts produced by the splitting become independent flowers again,...
Songchun Mingpin is a lion-head-shaped peony that blooms from mid-March to early April, with 1 scape bearing 5-8 flowers or more, the flowers held above the leaves, the petals tender green, and the nose column and lip splitting. The nose column becomes dozens of small petals as columnar protrusions, and the lip proliferates beneath the nose into 3-5 pieces or more. It looks like the lion head in traditional Chinese lion dance, remarkably true to life. It is a precious variety among Songchun peonies.
