Paeonia mairei in a pot and with a well-formed bud, a total surprise. Somewhat ahead of what it should be coming out of the ground if I had gotten around to planting the thing. At the lower left, the greener mop-head thing is a
Paeonia anomala from one of the Josef Halda collections, probably finer-leafed than the
anomala's I've grown to date.
Another subspecies of the Apothecarie's Peony,
Paeonia officinalis ssp banatica. Rather a twisty top to it, but that's not necessarily a feature of the subspecies.
The next 2 pics are
Paeonia kesrouanensis; the first is the same plant shown with a naked crown on 05 April-- I piled a bit of loose dirt on it about mid-April. This plant is in the woodland bed.
Slightly further along, this one is in the "part sun" display bed by the house.
And the noses of the Largeleaf Peony,
Paeonia macrophylla.
Paeonia mollis, a "pseudospecies". It is apparently no longer to be found in the wild, but has perpetuated in gardens, coming true from seed. A smaller plant, only knee-high, with soft-textured attractive leafs. The seeds are noticeably 
different from all other peony species.
And here the first of my various Paeonia officinalis plants to open, ssp banatica.
And Paeonia triternata with it's lovely 2-tone pink flowers and the excellent undulate blue-green waxy foliage. Neither flower nor foliage are apparently consistently unique across variablity of the species, so apparently the population my 
seeds were collected from is a more worthwhile form.
