Peony enthusiasts have been known to spend upward of $1,000 for bare root divisions of the rarest or newest cultivars. While Gagan doesn’t stock such fancy-pants varieties, she does preside over an inventory of more than 250 cultivars and keeps abreast of the latest trends, which these days include green, striped, or bicolor blooms and all manner of anemones (the flower form that has narrow, petallike stamens forming a showy cluster at its center).
Left: 'Raspberry Sunday.' Right: 'White Crane.'
