A very old but extremely beautiful Peony, Paeonia lactiflora 'Duchesse de Nemours' (Peony) is well worth including in your garden. Free-flowering and deliciously scented, it produces crown-white petals, delicately touched with a hint of yellow. Large and rounded, the outer petals surround a circle of smaller petals topped by a bursting crown of large, white, slightly incurved petals. Borne in profusion on strong stems, they float above a particularly attractive green foliage.