Hidden down a gravel road on the southern edge of Columbia, Missouri, our new flower farm will be dedicated exclusively to growing stunning peonies, starting with twelve unique varieties - everything from gorgeous pinks, corals with big yellow centers, to the most fragrant whites, and everything in between, varying week to week, all expected to arrive this spring.

Peonies have a way of recalling the past, a scent tied to memory, and marveling at blossoms as big as dinner plates. In my family, my mom always grew irises. They reminded her of her grandma Annie May Marsh Scarlett. When I told my mom I was starting a peony farm, she said, “Your great grandma Scarlett and her sisters grew rows and rows of peonies and irises. I have a picture somewhere!” There she is on the left, holding hot pink peonies on her Colorado farm.