Ivory Escort is a midseason garden peony carrying fully double blooms in white. Roots are field-grown in the Netherlands and arrive dormant and bare-root for fall planting.
Root size matters more than anything else on this page. An eye is a growth bud on the crown, and the eye count is what separates a root that flowers in its second season from one that sulks for four. Each root here is a three to five eye division, a full grade larger than the two to three eye roots most mail-order suppliers ship. Bigger roots carry more stored energy, establish faster, and give you more stems sooner.
Buy more and save. Prices drop per root as the quantity goes up, shown here for the 3/5 eye size:
Planting: full sun, well-drained soil, with the eyes set 1 to 2 inches below the soil surface. Planting deeper than that is the most common reason a peony never blooms. Space plants 3 feet apart. Hardy roughly in zones 3 to 8; a mature clump lives for decades and resents being moved.
First season: expect leaves and few or no flowers in year one. Peonies bloom properly from the second or third season onward.




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