Northwest Blooms · Perennials
Paeonia 'White Innocence'
White Innocence Peony
- Height
- 48–54 inches tall
- Width
- 24–36 inches wide
- Flower color
- Pure white single blooms
- Foliage color
- Glossy medium to dark green
- Bloom time
- Mid- to late spring
- Light
- Full sun to partial shade
- Water
- Average
- Maintenance
- Low, cut back foliage to ground after frost; stakes seldom needed due to strong stems; remove spent blooms for tidiness
- Growing zone
- USDA zones 3–8
- Wildlife
- Fragrant flowers attract bees, butterflies, and other pollinators; deer and rabbits generally avoid them
About this plant
Paeonia 'White Innocence' is a late mid-season herbaceous hybrid with pure white, single bowl-shaped flowers. They sit atop tall, elegant stems, each stem often carrying four to five blooms, that feature a distinctive greenish-white center. The blooms are lightly fragrant, and their understated form emphasizes a sense of calm purity in gardens and floral arrangements.
White Innocence delivers vivid ornamental interest through its tall, graceful stature and rare floral structure. The foliage remains glossy and robust through the flowering period, offering visual support long after the petals fall. As a garden specimen or cut-flower choice, it provides refined elegance and enduring presence in late spring displays.
Works well in
Borders · Cottage Gardens · Pollinator Gardens · Cut Flower Gardens
Companion plants
Lungworts · Daylilies · Japanese anemones · Bleeding hearts · Catmint · Heucheras
Design tip
Spring bloom is its headline moment, and it reads best in a group rather than as a single plant. It takes sun or light shade, which makes it useful along the changing light of a bed edge or a partly shaded border.
Where to see it
This plant can be seen at Brooks Gardens Peonies.
