Australia: Peony farm 'tickled pink by blooming success'
Each year the Peonietta peony farm produces thousands of bunches of flowers in the lead-up to Christmas.
The business was started by long- time peony enthusiast Peter Botting and his wife Julie, who recognised a gap in the pre-Christmas market for fresh flowers in the early 2000s.
Previously this market had been supplied by imported flowers from New Zealand or less fresh stored blooms.
The 20ha property is believed to be one of the biggest single peony farms in Australia, possibly in the southern hemisphere.
There are about 85,000 peony plants now planted on the property and these include about 100 different varieties.
Read more at The Weekly Times (Karolin MacGregor)