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You might be right with the origin ? I also have a white variety that grows to about three feet tall , this pink variety is about half that size .My white ones are huge blossom's , over six inch's across

a couple that I cut , they get so heavy the branch's droop onto the grass

 
Are those real peonies, ours were always crawling with ants - ick.

I once had 3 peonies in the back 40 but, the invasive Buckthorn swallowed them up,my mom's rose bush , red smoke tree(that was gorgeous and immense), and the Apple tree my son planted from Arbor day in Kindergarten.

I'm afraid to go back there. The yard is getting smaller, year by year I know Roundup for tough brush and poison ivy will kill Buckthorn but I would need at least a bathtub full to treat them. . Do goats like buckthorn?
 
Ants love Peonies. :) They love that sweet nectar as the bud is about to open. There is an old wives tale that says the ants help it open. No, they just love that sweet stuff. If you want to take the flower in, just shake it off before you do. They don't hurt the flower either. Not like those earwigs! I have been lucky and only see the ants. Those earwigs have been eating my marigolds. Marigolds! They don't smell sweet. Not sure why they like them, the leaf part, not the flower part. Stripped leaves off of three different ones I planted. :/
 
Here's an old man's tale...the older the violin, the sweeter the music.
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