Welcome to Simmons Paeonies.

Thank you for looking up our site. As we are heading for retirement, we are now concentrating on selling our new exclusive herbaceous varieties that Paul has been breeding over the past 24 years. We are excited to be releasing for the first time 16 new varieties that have just been registered in 2024, as well as 2 other older very good favourites that we have been selling since 2016 viz Eternal Love and Seidl's Super. (Star of Wonder will not be available again till 2027.)

 

Paul & Esther Simmons have been running a peony nursery since 1986. We are located on the outskirts of Christchurch, the main city of the South Island of New Zealand. Like all good business stories we started small, with 100 plants imported from USA. We propagated all types of peonies including tree peonies, both for the garden market and commercial cut flower growers.

 

We have been specialist root producers i.e. propagators of peonies. Although we do cut some flowers this is a minor part of the business

 

In 2011 we started to propagate a large number of varieties of tree peonies but we sold that side of the business in 2023. The photos of the tree peonies have been retained purely for interest’s sake and as a reference.

 

As well as selling locally, for many years we have sold peonies to overseas customers in countries including USA, Canada, Eastern and Western Europe.