one single pink red peony flower just beginning open and bloom solitary green stem

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One Single Pink or Red Peony Flower Just Beginning to Open and Bloom on a Solitary Green Stem

Against a dark background, this one single pink or red peony flower is just beginning to open, getting ready to bloom. The flower is on one single green stem with a few leaves around the flower. Otherwise, nothing competes for the beauty of this perennial plant that so many of us have in our gardens. Peonies have many meanings: wealth, success, honor, beauty, love and bashfulness. The Peony takes its name from the mythological Greek character Paeon, who studied with the god of medicine known as Asclepius. Zeus transformed the student into a beautiful flower when he showed more promise than his teacher and incurred his wrath.