Q: Can I grow peonies from seed? A: Many peonies are fertile and do produce seeds. These seeds can in turn germinate and produce new plants. With the exception of wild species populations however peonies do not come true from seed so growing peonies from seed is not a way to obtain more plants of your favourite variety. Growing from seed however is the way to discover new peonies. Each seed will produce a "new" peony with a high probability of not being like its parent. It may be wonderful, but there again it may not! The only way to find out is to germinate the seed. Peony seeds collected from species peonies in the wild are likely to yield plants similar to the parent because all the peonies in the area have a very similar genetic makeup. Often growing from seed is the only way to obtain plants of many species peony.

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